Schaumberg-Hoof: Late/Upper Oligocene, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Trichechidae
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Anomotherium langewieschei
Siegfried 1965
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 51.3° North, 9.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.2° North, 6.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 98852 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-10-21 15:35:49 | Last modified: | 2010-10-21 17:35:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-10-21 15:35:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34059. | C. G. Diedrich. 2008. The food of the miosiren Anomotherium langenwieschei (Siegfried) - indirect proof of seaweed or seagrass by xenomorphic oyster fixation structures in the Upper Oligocene (Neogene) of the Doberg, Bunde (NW Germany) and comparisons to modern Dugong dugon (Muller) feeding strategies. Senckenbergiana Maritima 38(1):59-73 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |