Also known as Oeningen, Oehningen, Öningen
Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.7° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 7.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation (Molasse Group), MN 7 + 8 (12.8 - 11.1 Ma)
• The Öhningen localities are of Middle Miocene age (MN 7+8) according to Szyndlar (1992, 1997)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, trace
Reposited in the BMNH
• classic 19th century collections are presumably distributed amongst numerous museums (SMNK, PIMUZ and some smaller museums in southern Baden-Württemberg and northern Switzerland)
Primary reference: H. Tobien. 1977. Ein Gewöllrest mit Megacricetodon (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus dem Obermiozän von Öhningen (Baden-Württemberg). Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg im Breisgau 67:359-369 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34534: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Meg Hall on 05.09.2003, edited by John Alroy, Torsten Liebrecht, Philip Mannion, Evangelos Vlachos and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tylototriton primigenius n. sp.3
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Coluber owenii n. sp.5 Meyer 1844 colubrid snake Holotype: "Exemplar der Seyfried'schen Sammlung" (SMNK te-mi 126; formerly TE 58), referred specimen: PIMUZ A/III 688
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Coluber kargii n. sp.4
Coluber kargii n. sp.4 von Meyer 1845 pit viper Syntypes: PIMUZ A/III 163 + 164 (part and counterpart)
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"Trionyx teyleri n. sp." = Trionyx vindobonensis6
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"Chelydra murchisoni n. sp." = Chelydropsis murchisoni2
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Anguilliformes indet.5 Greenwood et al. 1966 eel SMNK Oe 337 (formerly TE 57), labelled as the type specimen of C. arcuatus v. Meyer 1845, but is not the specimen described and figured in the first description of that taxon by von Meyer (1845)
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Coluber arcuatus n. sp.5
Coluber arcuatus n. sp.5 von Meyer 1845 supposed type specimen of C. arcuatus, described and figured by v. Meyer (1845), now lost; figure by v. Meyer does not allow to determine whether this is a snake or just another snake-bodied vertebrate
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