Pezinok (Miocene of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.3° N, 17.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.0° N, 17.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Ivanka Formation, MN 10 (9.7 - 8.7 Ma)

• originally early Pannonian, MN 9, Vallesian, updated by Sabol et al 2021

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, green, sandy claystone

• fine pelitic clays, green-grey sandy clays, fine sands and isolated little lignite beds in clays

Size class: macrofossils

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 69717: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1809 beaver
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium primigenium von Meyer 1829 hipparionine horse