Opole 1, Silesia,: Langhian - Serravallian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Heterictis oppoliensis
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trochotherium cyamoides
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ailuridae
Alopecocyon goeriachensis (Toula 1884)
recombined as Alopecodon goeriachensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursavus primaevus Gaillard 1899
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium grande (de Blainville 1849)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium simorrense
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848
Aceratherium tetradactylum (Lartet 1837)
recombined as Hoploaceratherium tetradactylum
Mammalia - Suidae
Conohyus simorrensis (Lartet 1851)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Euprox furcatus Hensel 1859
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx eminens
Mammalia - Dimylidae
Metacordylodon schlosseri (Andreae 1904)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpa minuta Blainville 1840
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
"Erinaceus sansaniensis" Lartet 1851
recombined as Lantanotherium sansaniensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Miopetaurista gibberosa (Hofmann 1893)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Chalicomys jaegeri
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon gaillardi Schaub 1925
Mammalia - Lagomorpha
Eurolagus fontannesi
Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Pliopithecus antiquus (Blainville 1839)
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland State/province:Silesia
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 17.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° North, 16.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian - Serravallian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Miocene, MN 5-7.
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: 'contained bones of vertebrates and shells of snails in loams filling a channel and covered by lignites.'
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Fauna needs revising, Opole 1 was discovered and published by Wagner in 1913, but most of the specimens have disappeared since then.
Metadata
Database number:42588
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2004-08-03 04:25:17 Last modified:2004-08-03 07:25:18
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-03 04:25:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11342.PACED K. Kowalski. 1990. Stratigraphy of Neogene mammals in Poland. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology, Plenum Press, New York 193-209 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]