Deinotherium giganteum. Drawing: Pavel Major / Dinotherium Museum, Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim (fossil-world) - The Rhine-elephant with the scientific names of species Deinotherium giganteum - to German "Huge fright animal" - is considered the best-known animal with a trunk at the Ur-Rhine, about ten million years ago. This impressive animal reached a shoulder height of about 3.60 meters. Two downward hook-shaped tusks in the lower jaw gave him the additional name-elephant tusks. Of that primeval giant is at the center of the pocket book "The Rhine-elephant" of the Wiesbaden-based science writer Ernst Probst. For the texts are excerpts from the comprehensive book "The Ur-Rhine" of the same Author, who has made numerous popular scientific works of a name.
The Ur-Rhine flowed in from the Rheinhessen area Worms - Binger on the door - to the west than in the present. The then did not touch the river - as now - the area of Oppenheim, kidney stones, neck home, Mainz, Wiesbaden, and Ingelheim. That happened later. The deposits of the ancient Rhine Rheinhessen Dinotheriensande are called because they often contain teeth and bones of the animal's snout Deinotherium giganteum. In the literature we find some cases the name Dinotherium giganteum.
About the exotic wildlife on the Ur-Rhine also provides information to Deinotherium named Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim. In the area of Eppelsheim lived about ten million years ago mammoths, saber-toothed cats, bears, dogs, tapirs, rhinos, krallenfüßige ungulates, horses and even great-apes. Eppelsheim enjoys worldwide in science a good reputation. Together with the Paris Montmartre is one of the small town south of Alzey to those great fossil deposits, which began with the exploration of extinct mammals in Europe.
The paperback, "The Rhine-Elephant" is dedicated to three worthy men: Dr. Jens Lorenz Franzen (born 1937), paleontologist in Titisee-Neustadt, a longtime employee of the Research Institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main, rediscovered thanks to the Dinotheriensand locality and founder of the first scientific excavations at Eppelsheim, Heiner Roos (b. 1934), the former mayor of Eppelsheim, whose idea and initiative of the Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim, and the Darmstadt paleontologists Johann Jakob Kaup (1803-1873), has begun with the investigation of mammalian fauna from the Eppelsheim Dinotheriensanden at once.
The title "The Rhine-Elephant" is published in "GRIN for academic texts," includes 144 pages and is lavishly illustrated. GRIN is this work under Internet address http://www.grin.com/e-book/151473/der-rhein-elefant available as a printed pocket book for € 18.99 or as an inexpensive electronic e-book in PDF format for 13,99 €.
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