Ehrenstein 12 (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 6.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 22 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• "same age as Herrlingen 7" (Szyndlar, 1994)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

• infill of karstic fissure in Upper Jurassic limestones of the Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1990; reposited in the SMF

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve

• fissure was discovered by M. Hellmund in August 1990

Primary reference: Z. Szyndlar. 1994. Oligocene snakes of southern Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):24-37 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118196: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 08.10.2011, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.1 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Eoanilius oligocenicus Szyndlar 1994 snake
28 trunk vertebrae (SMNS 57723/14)
 Squamata - Boidae
Boinae indet. Gray 1825 boa
"Boinae indet. A", 3 fragmentary mid-trunk vertebrae (SMNS 57723/9, 12)
Bransateryx vireti Hoffstetter and Rage 1972 sand boa
8 trunk vertebrae (SMNS 57723/6)
 Squamata - Tropidophiidae
cf. Platyspondylia sp. Rage 1974 dwarf boa
2 trunk vertebrae (SNMS 57723/10, 11)
 Squamata - Colubridae
Texasophis bohemiacus Szyndlar 1987 colubrid snake
7 trunk vertebrae (SMNS 57723/1-3, 5), 1 caudal (SMNS 57723/4)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Theridomyidae
Suevosciurus ehingensis2 Dehm 1937 rodent
 Rodentia - Pseudosciuridae
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Nyctitheriidae indet.2 Simpson 1928 placental
SMNS 47284
Euronyctia recta n. sp.2 Ziegler 2007 placental
SMNS 47283 - type
Cryptotopos communis n. sp.2 Ziegler 2007 placental
SMNS 47281 - type; paratypes: SMNS 47281-47282
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae "indet. sp. 1"3, "Geotrypus minor n. sp." = Tegulariscaptor minor3, "Myxomygale aff. minor" = Percymygale minor3, "Myxomygale vauclusensis" = Percymygale vauclusensis3
Talpidae "indet. sp. 1"3 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole
SMNS 47464
"Geotrypus minor n. sp." = Tegulariscaptor minor3 Ziegler 2012 mole
SMNS 47462 - type
"Myxomygale aff. minor" = Percymygale minor3 Ziegler 1990 mole
SMNS 47457
"Myxomygale vauclusensis" = Percymygale vauclusensis3 Crochet 1995 mole
SMNS 47456