Przeworno 1, Lower Silesia (Miocene to of Poland)

Where: Silesia, Poland (50.7° N, 17.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 15.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• MN5-7, Middle Miocene. Karst fissures and channels in a marble quarry of probable Proterozoic age. Przeworno 1 is a horizontal channel fill at the bottom of the quarry. Probably the same age as Przeworno 2.

Environment/lithology: "channel"

• Horizontal channel in karst.
• loams filling a horizontal channel.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Site found in 1970.

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42595: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 03.08.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Local environment probably mixed with both humid forests and savannas nearby (interpretation based on fauna).
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Ophisaurus moguntinus2 glass lizard
relatively abundant
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 turtle
ZZSiD, small-sized
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium crassum Lartet 1851 chevrotain
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Euprox furcatus Hensel 1859 deer
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Conohyus simorrensis Lartet 1851 pig
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825 anchitheriine horse
 Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus de Blainville 1843 cat
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837 gomphothere