Enghausen (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (48.5° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• mittlere Serie der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (middle series of Upper Freshwater Molasse);About 20 m below the "Brockhorizont", a layer generated by the Ries-impact

•the Ries ejecta are 14.88 +/- 0.11 Ma old (Aziz et al. 2007), implying a Langhian age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Most fossils are stored in the Bayerische Staatssammlung

Primary reference: K. Heissig. 1989. Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria). Geologica Bavarica 94:239-257 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45599: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831 deinothere
entered as "Dinotherium bavaricum"
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825 anchitheriine horse
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium sp. Kaup 1833 chalicothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848 rhinoceros
Lartetotherium sansaniense Lartet 1837 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Euprox sp. Stehlin 1928 deer
Euprox/Heteroprox sp.