Weisenau (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50.0° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 5.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 1 (23.0 - 22.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• Weisenau is located in the Mainz Basin which is part of the Upper Rhine Graben rift.
• not reported but probably carbonatic rock

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMF, SMNS

Primary reference: R. Ziegler. 1990. Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) aus dem Oberoligozän und Untermiozän Süddeutschlands. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 167:1-81 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/J. Richter/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69617: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Juliette Richter on 28.02.2007, edited by Mark Uhen, Torsten Liebrecht, Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Limicorallus carbunculus n. sp.1 Mayr 2009 cormorant
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Trionyx gergensi" = Trionyx vindobonensis3
"Trionyx gergensi" = Trionyx vindobonensis3 Peters 1855 softshell turtle
 Squamata -
Squamata indet.6 squamates
1 vertebra (MGPT-PU 139984)
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp.6 Merrem 1820 legless lizard
Two cervical vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139918, 139919); 20 trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 17321, 139906, 139910/139914, 139923/139925, 139927/139934, 139936, 139937); nine caudal vertebrae (MGPT-PU 17319, 139907, 139908, 139915/139917, 139921, 139922, 139935)
 Squamata -
Serpentes indet.6 Linnaeus 1758 snake
14 vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139902, 139903, 139969, 139974, 139975, 139983, 139985)
 Squamata - Colubridae
cf. Coluber cadurci5 Rage 1974 racer
SMNS 59119; genus name actually set in quotation marks in the reference due to uncertain generic assignment
Zamenis kohfdischi6 colubrid snake
Four trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139920, 139946, 139977)
 Squamata - Boidae
Falseryx petersbuchi6 Szyndlar and Rage 2003 boa
One cervical vertebra (MGPT-PU 139970); 95 trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 17320, 139909, 139926, 139939/139945, 139947, 139949/139968, 139976, 139980)
Bransateryx vireti5 Hoffstetter and Rage 1972 sand boa
SMNS, no specimen counts cited
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera cf. antiqua5 Szyndlar 1987 pit viper
SMNS 59115, 59116 and one uncatalogued SMNS specimen figured by Szyndlar & Böhme (1993)
Vipera antiqua6 Szyndlar 1987 pit viper
14 trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139900, 139901, 139938, 139948, 139971/139973, 139978, 139979, 139981, 139982, 139986, 139987)
 Squamata - Trogonophidae
Palaeoblanus tobieni n. gen. n. sp.4
Palaeoblanus tobieni n. gen. n. sp.4 Schleich 1988 worm lizard
1 right dentary (= holotype, SMF - R 4349a) and two left dentaries (= paratypes, SMF - R 4349b + c)
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Palaeogalidae
Palaeogale minuta2 Gervais 1848 carnivoran
 Carnivora -
Herpestides antiquus2 de Blainville 1842 carnivoran
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Franconictis humilidens2 mustelid carnivore
Franconictis vireti2 Dehm 1950 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Ailuridae
Amphictis prolongata n. sp.2 Morlo 1996 red panda
Amphictis borbonica2 Viret 1929 red panda
Amphictis schlosseri2 Heizmann and Morlo 1994 red panda
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Angustictis aff. mayri2 Dehm 1950 procyonid carnivore
Broiliana sp.2 Dehm 1950 procyonid carnivore
new species
 Carnivora -
Potamotherium vallentoni2 Geoffroy-Saint-Hillaire 1833 carnivoran
 Theriamorpha - Dimylidae
Dimylus paradoxus n. sp.7 von Meyer 1846 placental
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Paratalpa brachychir v. Meyer 1846 mole
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Amphechinus edwardsi7 Filhol 1879 hedgehog
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Salamandra sansaniensis6 Lartet 1851 salamander
Two trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139904, 139,905)