Zurich (internet newspaper) - The Miocene from about ten million years have also hunted in Switzerland lion large saber-toothed cats. The finds from the former village street at Charmoille Porrentruy (Canton Jura), which is now the municipality of La Baroche. The finds from Charmoille is a right mandible with two teeth and a single fragmentary canine (fang) of the saber-toothed tiger Machairodus aphanistus. This report of the Wiesbaden Science author Ernst Probst in his pocketbook "saber-toothed cats".
In Charmoille were reduced in the disused mine of Vielle Tuilerie more than three Jahrzahnte long called Vosges sands, which again came to light remains of fossil mammals. Charmoille belonged to the fauna of beavers, saber-toothed cats, bears, dogs, forest antelopes, dwarf deer, pigs, bizarre-looking krallenfüßige ungulates, dreihufige great-horses, rhinos, tapirs and mammoths. Much more frequently than saber-toothed cat has been discovered in Switzerland so-called cave lions, the Ernst Probst also recently published a paperback added.
similar to the fauna of that of Charmoille Eppelsheim at Alzey in Germany. There you have ten million year old sediments of the ancient Rhine not only the remains of saber-toothed cats and proboscis animals, but also recovered from three different primates. With the exotic wildlife of Eppelsheim, Ernst Probst deal in his pocket book 'The Ur-Rhine ".
The pocket books "saber-toothed cats, cave lions" and "The Ur-Rhine" by Ernst Probst are from published "GRIN for academic texts" and available in about 1,000 online book shops as well as in any good bookstore. Probst has more than 30 books published.
