Robert Darga

• Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf, Germany, Siegsdorf

In the Northern Calcareous Alps, relics of a formerly widely distributed shallow marine facies belonging to the Branderfleck Formation (upper Albian to lower Turonian) crop out and contain locally abundant corals. The fauna described here derives from Middle Cenomanian sediments. This study complements a former revision. In total, the fauna include...

During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship between hominins and lions in earlier periods is poorly known and primarily interpreted as interspecies competition. Here we present new evidence for Neanderthal-cave lion interactions...

Large carnivores have played a pivotal role in the behavioral and cultural evolution of the hominin species. By competitive pressures, niche partitioning, and ever-shifting relationships between predator and prey, the human lineage has adapted to coexist with its competitors on the landscape. The lion is one of the most formidable predators humans...

Anhand von sedimentologischen und geländemorphologischen Untersuchungen wird die Abschmelzgeschichte des südöstlichen Chiemsee-Gletschers beschrieben. Mit dem Trockenfallen der Bad Adelholzen-Erlstätter Rinne im Verlaufe des Spätwürm entwickelt sich aus dem Abschmelzen des Eislappens in der Grabenstätter Bucht eine sich ständig tiefer legende konze...

The Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum excels in its local finds, especially the largest, most complete and best preserved mammoth skeleton in Europe. The museum is operated exclusively by the municipality of Siegsdorf. On 650 m² the exhibition illustrates the formation of the landscape since the last 250 million years in south-east Upper...

This study analyzed size changes in the course of the time among European Middle and Late Pleistocene lions. The general decreasing size as a tendency in cave lion evolution is confirmed. The whole time span of lion presence in Europe was divided into four main periods. The first period covers Middle and late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 19-17 to MIS 7-...

Abstract The northern Tethyan margin is a key region for determining environmental changes associated with the collision of continental and oceanic tectonic plates and Alpine orogeny. Herein we investigated Middle to Late Eocene neritic to bathyal sediments depo- sited during an interval of unstable climatic conditions. In order to quantify paleoe...

In the Northern Calcareous Alps, relics of a formerly widely distributed shallow marine facies belonging to the Branderfleck Formation (Upper Albian to Early Turonian) crop out and contain locally abundant corals. The fauna described here derives from Middle Cenomanian sediments. It encompasses 39 species in 25 genera, belonging to seven scleractin...

Upper Eocene Bryozoa from the Eisenrichterstein in the German Northern Calcareous Alps are described and documented by SEM-photographs. The locality yielded 46 species by a new method of dissolving fossiliferous marl in concentrated acetic acid. Two species are new: Tubucella elongecia sp. nov. and Batopora alpina sp. nov. The bryozoan fauna from t...

The site of Siegsdort yielded very well preserved bone remains, especially a nearly complete skeletton of mammoth and an incomplete skeletton of cave lion. Cut marks were identified in 1992 on some bones of the lion, which is now dated by 14C at 47.180+1190/-1040 years BP. This is the first evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis...

The Cave was discovered in 1996 by A. Hofman in the Laubenstein area (Chiemgau / Bavarian Alps) and contained mainly remains of Ursus spelaeus and Ursus arctos. It is the first alpine cave bear bearing cave in Germany. A test pit was dug and numerous special analyses, for example paleo-DNA, collagen isotopy and absolute datings, were done on the bo...

For the first time mammal, bird and reptile remains of the Thalberg-Schichten (Uppermost Lower Egerian, Upper Oligocene; Subalpine Molasse) of Mount Hochberg north of Siegsdorf (County of Traunstein, Upper Bavaria) are described. Additionally further reptile remains are studied Lower Tertiary sites in the surroundings of Siegsdorf are studied. All...

Summary Ten facies types were recognized in the Upper Eocene reef complex of the Eisenrichterstein in southern Bavaria. The supratidal to subtidal zone is dominated by carbonate conglomerates and carbonate sandstones. The adjacent lagoon is very rich in molluscs. Here, the sediment consists of well-sorted, fine grained carbonate sandstones which s...

The shallow water sedimentary record of the Helvetic shelf of the southern European Plate (northwestern Tethyan margin) is punctuated by a number of stratigraphic gaps, which become more pronounced northwards, in direction to the continent. In the North-Helvetic realm, Paleocene deposits are absent because there the Middle Eocene (Adelholzen beds)...