Stubersheim 3 (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

• karstic fissure in Upper Jurassic rocks of the Swabian Alb

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: E.P.J. Heizmann. 1983. Die Gattung Cainotherium (Cainotheriidae) im Orleanium und im Astaracium Süddeutschlands. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 76(3):781-825 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69179: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 20.02.2007, edited by Juliette Richter, Torsten Liebrecht, Matthew Carrano, Philip Mannion and Terri Cleary

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton inexpectatum2 Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.6 Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
SMNS 57709/4, "non-natricine colubrid", "tiny"
Natricinae indet.6 Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake
"a few fragmentary vertebrae" (SMNS 5700/6), "small"
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera sp.5 Laurenti 1768 pit viper
SMNS 57709/3, "Vipera aspis complex"
 Squamata -
Eoanilius oligocenicus4 Szyndlar 1994 snake
also mentioned in Szyndlar (1994, J. Vert. Pal. 14(1))
 Squamata - Boidae
cf. Eryx sp.6 Daudin 1803 true sand boa
single fragmentary vertebra (SMNS 57709/2)
 Squamata - Trogonophidae
Palaeoblanus tobieni1 Schleich 1988 worm lizard
BSP 1980 XXXII 3258, left dentary
 Squamata - Amphisbaenidae
Blanus antiquus1 worm lizard
BSP 1980 XXXII 3259, right dentary
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cainotheriidae
Cainotherium bavaricum Berger 1959 even-toed ungulate
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Myxomygale hutchisoni3 Ziegler 1985 mole
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Heterosorex neumayrianus7 shrew
ssp. subsequens
? Hemisorex sp.7 Baudelot 1967 red-toothed shrew
Crocidosoricinae indet.7 Reumer 1987 shrew
Soricella discrepans7 Doben-Florin 1964 shrew
Carposorex sp.7 Crochet 1975 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Galerix aurelianensis8 Ziegler 1990 hedgehog
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceoidae
Dimylidae indet.8 Schlosser 1887 placental
Chainodus intercedens8 Müller 1967 placental
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Amphiperatherium frequens8 von Meyer 1846 marsupial
A. frequens wintershofense seu erkertshofense