Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.5° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 8.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kirchberg beds Member (Brackwater Molasse Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• lithostratigraphy is according to Böttcher (1987, Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. B 131)
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•Pippèrr et al. 2007: Biostratigraphical studies based on otoliths and small mammals suggest that the Upper Brackish Molasse is Late Ottnangian in age (e.g. ZIEGLER & FAHLBUSCH 1986; REICHENBACHER et al. 2004). Adding support to this age estimate is the positive correlation of the Upper Brackish Molasse with the sediments in Switzerland and the Rzehakia Beds of the Central Paratethys (SENES 1973; REICHENBACHER et al. 1998).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; pebbly, gray, yellow, sandy marl and unlithified, pyritic, black, gray, blue mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Several thousands of vertebrate remains (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) have been recovered from the three fossiliferous beds. Mammals are mainly represented by large animals (individual teeth and bones, whole skulls and mandibles as well as larger portions of the skeleton, or, in case of Deinotherium, whole skeletons). Numerous remains of micromammals have been obtained by screenwashing of bulk samples (a total of 13,500 kg). Langenau 1 produced a total of:
•3 complete and partial skeletons
•about 90 skulls and jaw fragments
•160 individual teeth of large mammals
•1800 bone remains of large mammals
•1000 teeth and bone remains of small mammals
Collected by SMNS in 1976; reposited in the BSP, SMNS
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• The fossils have been recovered during a three-month rescue excavation in the summer of 1976.
Primary reference: E.P.J. Heizmann, L. Ginsburg, and C. Bulot. 1980. Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, ein neuer machairodontider Felide aus dem Miocän Deutschlands und Frankreichs. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Ser. B. 58:1-27 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69098: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 18.02.2007, edited by Mark Uhen, Terri Cleary and David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
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Dimylidae indet. Schlosser 1887 placental | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
Plesiosorex sp. Pomel 1848 placental | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew | |
Talpidae indet., Mygalea cf. antiqua3, Talpinae indet.3, cf. Scaptonyx sp.3, Proscapanus cf. intercedens3
Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole | |
? Hyotherium sp. von Meyer 1834 pig | |
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Dorcatherium crassum Lartet 1851 chevrotain | |
cf. Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939 antelope | |
Amphimoschus pontileviensis Bourgeois 1873 ruminant | |
Procervulus cf. dichotomus Gervais 1849 ruminant | |
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Cainotherium sp. Bravard 1828 even-toed ungulate | |
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825 anchitheriine horse | |
Aceratherium sp., Prosantorhinus sp., Prosantorhinus douvillei3, Brachypotherium sp., cf. Brachypotherium brachypus3, Plesiaceratherium lumiarense3
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834 rhinoceros
Prosantorhinus sp. Heissig 1973 rhinoceros
Brachypotherium sp. Roger 1904 rhinoceros
cf. Brachypotherium brachypus3 Lartet 1848 rhinoceros generic name originally entered as "Brachyptherium"
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Pseudaelurus romieviensis Roman and Viret 1934 cat | |
Protictitherium gaillardi Forsyth Major 1903 hyaena | |
Prosansanosmilus peregrinus n. sp. Heizmann et al. 1980 false sabre-tooth | |
Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836 bear-dog
Amphicyon giganteus Schinz 1825 bear-dog | |
Ischyrictis sp. Helbing 1930 mustelid carnivore | |
Lagopsis sp. Schlosser 1894 pika
Prolagus sp. Pomel 1853 pika | |
Melissiodon dominans, Democricetodon franconicus, Democricetodon aff. franconicus3, Eumyarion cf. weinfurteri, cf. Megacricetodon sp.3, Megacricetodon cf. collongensis, Megacricetodon aff. collongensis3
Melissiodon dominans Dehm 1950 rodent
Democricetodon franconicus Fahlbusch 1966 rodent
Eumyarion cf. weinfurteri Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
Megacricetodon cf. collongensis Mein 1958 rodent | |
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908 beaver | |
Ligerimys sp. Schaub 1951 rodent | |
Pseudodryomys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Bransatoglis sp. Hugueney 1967 dormouse | |
Heteroxerus sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 squirrel | |
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831 deinothere | |
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Vipera sp.3 Laurenti 1768 pit viper "'Oriental vipers' complex", specimen figured in Szyndlar & Rage (1999): SMNS 53915
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Chamaeleonidae "indet. 1"1 Gray 1825 chameleon SMNS 80621, fragment of right maxilla and posterior region of left maxilla
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Amphibia | |
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"Rana ridibunda" = Pelophylax ridibunda3
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