Schönegg, Wies coal seam (Miocene of Austria)

Also known as Schonegg; Schoenegg

Where: Styria, Austria (46.8° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Eibiswald Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Upper Eibiswald beds; Wies coal seam

•Based on mammal fauna, a Karpatian age was assigned to the Eibiswald Formation (Mottl, 1970), corresponding to MN6–MN5. However, Gruber et al. 2003 correlated the Eibiswald Formation to younger deposits of badenian age, which was corroborated by K-Ar dates of tuff samples in the coal horizon of the formation, suggesting a minimum depositional age of ~15.22Ma (Handler et al. 2006). The Badenian was redefined in Hohenbegger et al. 2014.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Martin and M. Gross. 2011. Taxonomic clarification of Diplocynodon POMEL, 1847 (Crocodilia) from the Miocene of Styria, Austria. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 261(2):177-193 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144046: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.04.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx hilberi n. sp.1 Hoernes 1892 softshell turtle
UMJGP 200692 (holotype), a complete carapace
Trionyx stiriacus n. sp.2 Peters 1855 softshell turtle
UMJGP 5847 (lectotype), a partial carapace (Peters 1855, pl. 4.1, 3; Gross 2002, pl. 16.2); UMJGP 1776 (paralectotype), carapace and plastral fragments, counterpart of UMJGP 1777 (Peters 1855, pl. 6.2, 4, 6; Gemel 2002, pl. 2.d; Gross 2002, pl. 16.3); UMJGP 1777 (paralectotype), carapace and plastral fragments, counterpart of UMJGP 1776 (Peters 1855, pl. 6.1, 3, 5; Gross 2002, pl. 16.4).
 Crocodylia -
"Enneodon ungeri n. gen. n. sp." = Diplocynodon ungeri, "Crocodilus styriacus n. sp." = Diplocynodon ungeri
"Enneodon ungeri n. gen. n. sp." = Diplocynodon ungeri Prangner 1845 crocodilian
UMJ 1774 - holotype (a rostrum in ventral view encased on slab)
"Crocodilus styriacus n. sp." = Diplocynodon ungeri Prangner 1845 crocodilian
Type series - UMJ 203838 (mandible), UMJ 203839 (left posterior mandibular portion) and UMJ 203848 (series of articulated osteoderms)