Outcrop A, Gaiselberg, near Zistersdorf (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Niederösterreich, Austria (48.5° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Age: most of the gravels from Lower Pannon; Lower Pliocene

•JA: "Lower Pliocene" means early Late Miocene = Tortonian in the modern marine time scale

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; unlithified conglomerate and unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: H. Zapfe. 1948. Die Säugetierfauna aus dem Unterpliozän von Gaiselberg bei Zistersdorf in Niederösterreich (The Lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from Gaiselberg near Zistersdorf, Niederoesterreich (Lower Austria)). Jahrbuch der geologischen Bundesanstalt, Wien 93:83-97 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45042: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 30.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere
entered as "Dinotherium giganteum"
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Mastodon longirostris" = Tetralophodon longirostris
"Mastodon longirostris" = Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti Sondaar 1974 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium goldfussi Kaup 1833 chalicothere
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Miotragocerus pannoniae Kretzoi 1941 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833 chevrotain
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Hadrictis fricki mustelid carnivore
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
[entered as Testudinae indet.]