Heggbach, "Knauerschicht": Burdigalian - Langhian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Diplocynodon sp.
Pomel 1847
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Testudo antiqua
Bronn 1831
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Karl 2013 | |||||||||
Testudo kalksburgensis
Toula 1896
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Karl 2013 | |||||||||
Geochelone sp.
Fitzinger 1835
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= Cheirogaster vitodurana
Biedermann 1862
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Karl 2013 | |||||||||
recombined as Titanochelon vitodurana | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Ocadia sp.
Gray 1870
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= Mauremys pygolopha
Peters 1868
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Karl 2013 | |||||||||
Ptychogaster kinkelini
Reinach 1900
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Karl 2013 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydropsis murchisoni
(Bell 1836)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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= Trionyx triunguis
Forksal 1775
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Ophisaurus sp.
Daudin 1803
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium angustidens
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyonidae indet.
Haeckel 1886
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Amphicyon major
De Blainville 1841
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitherium aurelianense
Cuvier 1825
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ssp. aurelianense | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Prosantorhinus germanicus
Wang 1929
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Plesiaceratherium fahlbuschi
Heissig 1972
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Hyotherium soemmeringi
von Meyer 1834
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium naui
Kaup 1833
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Procervulus dichotomus
Gervais 1849
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Mammalia
- Lagomerycidae
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Lagomeryx ruetimeyeri
Thenius 1949
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Palaeomeryx kaupi
von Meyer 1834
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Steneofiber depereti
Mayet 1908
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Prolagus oeningensis
(König 1825)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Baden-Wurttemberg |
Coordinates: | 48.1° North, 9.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 48.4° North, 8.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 545 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Burdigalian - Langhian | ||
Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Upper Freshwater Molasse | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Early Middle Miocene; mammal unit MN 5 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified conglomeratic sandstone |
Lithology description: Irregular, lenticular layer of reworked rock fragments | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 106003 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Clapham, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-02-28 16:29:29 | Last modified: | 2022-02-11 10:05:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-02-28 16:29:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35360. | G. Bechly and V. J. Sach. 2002. An interesting new fossil dragonfly (Anisoptera: Libellulidae: “Brachydiplacini”) from the Miocene of Germany, with a discussion on the phylogeny of Tetrathemistinae and a fossil list for the locality Heggbach. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 325:1-11 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
67646 | H.-V. Karl. 2013. Die fossilen Schildkröten aus der Molasse von Oberschwaben mit taxonomischen Notizen zu „Promalacoclemmys Reinach, 1900“ und Testudo antiqua Bronn, 1831 (Testudines: Cryptodira). Mainzer naturwiss. Archiv 50:121-146 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |