W. von Reichenau's scientific contributions

... The evo lu tion ary his tory of bears of the ge nus Ursus is a tradi tional topic of palaeontological stud ies (e.g., von Reichenau, 1904Reichenau, , 1906Freudenberg, 1914;Rode, 1931Rode, , 1935 be cause of the pres ence of abun dant and well-pre served ma te rial. The main in ter est fo cuses on the Late Pleis to cene, while there are many pa pers too deal ing with Mid dle Pleis to cene forms (e.g., Kurtén, 1956Kurtén, , 1959Musil, 1972Musil, , 1995Argant, 1991;Bishop, 1982;Torres, 1988;Tchernov and Tsoukala, 1997;Baryshnikov and Foronova, 2001;Baryshnikov and Kalmykov, 2005;Sher et al., 2011). ...

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Fossil bear material from the oldest deposits in the Jasna Strzegowska cave (Silesia, southern Poland)

... The Eurasian big cat, since its initial description as Felis spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), has been referred to by various taxonomic names, including Panthera (Leo) spelaea cloueti (Filhol and Filhol, 1871), Panthera leo fossilis (Reichenau, 1906), Panthera leo spelaea (Kurten, 1985;Argant, 1991), and others. In the second half of the last century, Panthera (Leo) spelaea or Panthera spelaea (Dietrich, 1968) has been the commonly used name by authors for all lions of the Middle and Late Pleistocene. ...

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Last population of cave lion (Panthera (Leo) spelaea) in the extreme south-west of Europe: Carigüela cave (Southern Iberian Peninsula)

... Equus kiang holdereri and E. holdereri). The use of the generic designation Microhippus for the new race ("species") tafeli followed the palaeontologist REICHENAU (1915), who had transferred all hemiones into this genus. The rational to place specimens of the same Formenkreis from two geographically very closely adjacent areas into different genera reveals MATSCHIE's names (in this case) as being entirely utilitarian: Clearly the subtle discriminatory characters mentioned at best justify intraspecific taxa (demotaxa), let alone a new species. ...

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The Emerging Dziggetai (Equidae: Equus hemionus PALLAS): An Illustrated History of Taxonomic Concepts for the Identification, Classification, and Distribution of Hemiones from Central Asia

... Tarpan (gmelini Antonius, sylvestris Brinken are synonyms), E. c. mexicanus ( Hibbard, 1955. American periglacial Horse), E. c. mosbachensis ( Von Reichenau, 1903, p. 583. Central European Horse), E. c. Przewalskii (Poliakov, 1881, p. 1. Przewalskii Horse, Mongolian Wild Horse), and E. c. pumpelli (Duerst, 1908, p. 397. ...

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Fossil findings from the Sıcak Çermik fissure ridge-type travertines and possible hominid tracks, Sivas, Central Turkey