Grosse-Pampau (Miocene of Germany)

Also known as Gross Pampau, Groß Pampau,Groß Pampau

Where: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (53.5° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 53.8° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Glimmerton Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Langenfeldian, Bolboforma fragori/subfragoris zone; 10.6-11.8 Ma

•Stratigraphically, it is approximately concordant with the level of the middle/late Miocene (Serravalian/Tortonian) boundary, based on the bio- stratigraphically very important Bolboforma zona- tion (Fig. 2).

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; claystone

• marine, inner to outer neritic
• Miocene clay; mica-clay facies

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Hopfner. 1991. Aus der Urzeit Aufgetaucht: Whale und Haie. Der Geschiebesammler 24(3-4):107-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53894: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra forchhammeri6 auger snail
supspecies excavata
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte fusca6 clam
supspecies incrassata
Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Physeteroidea indet.5 Gray 1868 toothed whale
MNUL.Pal.100.755
Hoplocetus ritzi n. sp.2 Hampe 2006 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodon hoepfneri n. sp.4 Kazár and Hampe 2014 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
Delphinoidea indet.2 Flower 1865 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Praemegaptera pampauensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Praemegaptera pampauensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Behrmann 1995 rorqual
 Cetacea -
Thinocetus sp.3 Kellogg 1969 whale
Thinocetus sp. ‘Groß Pampau’