In the Upper Rhine area, new finds of Dama dama of the last interglacial period belonging to collections of the Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart and the private collections of F. Menger, H. HARTNAGEL, H. BUCHHAUPT are described. The material is compared to the recent European fallow deer, the Eemian Dama from Lehringen (Niedersachsen, Verden a.d. Aller) and D. dama from Neumark-Nord at the northern periphery of the Geiseltal (Sachsen-Anhalt, SE of Halle a.d. Saale), which are either of Eemian of intra-Saalian interglacial age. Dama dama from the Upper Rhine area is characterised by a 10% greater body size compared to the recent fallow deer, and a 10% smaller body size in relation to D. dama from Neumark-Nord by strongly developed additional tines above the browtine (Figs 7-13) D. dama dama and the fallow deer from the Upper Rhine area share short browtines. The browtines of D. dama from Neumark-Nord are much longer (Figs. 1-2). Like in D. dama from Neumark-Nord, the beam can be flattened above the browtine forming a dorsal ridge. The antlers of the fallow deer from the Upper Rhine area morphologically interlink D. dama from Neumark-Nord and the recent European fallow deer.
