Germany in the world were discovered in a coal mine in Schöningen where three 380,000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed. The Neander Valley was the location where the first ever non-modern human fossil was discovered; the new species of human was called the Neanderthal. The Neanderthal 1 fossils are known to be 40,000 years old. Evidence of modern humans, similarly dated, has been found in caves in the Swabian Jura near Ulm. The finds include 42,000-year-old bird bone and mammoth ivory flutes which are the oldest musical instruments ever found, the 40,000-year-old Ice Age Lion Man which is the oldest uncontested figurative
Adelophthalmus until the subsequent stage, the Sakmarian (from 295 to 290.1 million years ago), which also saw the appearance of "A. nebraskensis" in Nebraska, USA. The youngest described species is "A. sellardsi", known from the Artinskian (290.1 to 283.5 million years ago) stage of Elmo in Kansas, USA. "A. luceroensis", named after the Lucero Mesa of New Mexico (which is located near where its fossil was found), was closely related to other species found in the United States, but can be distinguished by its unusually wide prosoma. As with many other species of "Adelophthalmus", "A. luceroensis" appears to have lived in