Wait Quarry (Miocene to of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.2° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sandberg Member, MN 6 to MN 6 (13.7 - 11.1 Ma)

• Upper Badenian, MN 6b to MN 7+8

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• transgressive horizontal layers of marine sands s

Primary reference: M. Sabol and P. Holec. 2002. Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 53(4):269-279 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69713: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.03.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
"Pristiphoca vetusta" = Miophoca vetusta
"Pristiphoca vetusta" = Miophoca vetusta Zapfe 1937 seal