History of Germany in Germany was the location where the first ever non-modern human fossil was discovered and recognised in 1856; the new species of human was named Neanderthal man. The Neanderthal 1 fossils are now known to be 40,000 years old. At a similar age, evidence of modern humans 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 Löwenmensch figurine which is the oldest uncontested figurative art ever discovered, and the 35,000-year-old Venus of Hohle Fels which is
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