Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.5° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 8.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kirchberg beds Member (Brackwater Molasse Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• MN 4b
•lithostratigraphy is according to Böttcher (1987, Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. B 131)
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•Pippèrr et al. 2007: Biostratigraphical studies based on otoliths and small mammals suggest that the Upper Brackish Molasse is Late Ottnangian in age (e.g. ZIEGLER & FAHLBUSCH 1986; REICHENBACHER et al. 2004). Adding support to this age estimate is the positive correlation of the Upper Brackish Molasse with the sediments in Switzerland and the Rzehakia Beds of the Central Paratethys (SENES 1973; REICHENBACHER et al. 1998).
Environment/lithology: paralic; muddy marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by SMNS and Department of Paleontology and Historical Geology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 1977; reposited in the BSP, SMNS
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
• Fossils were almost exclusively obtained from surface collecting.
Primary reference: V. J. Sach and E. P. J. Heizmann. 2001. Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 310:1-95 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70359: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.03.2007, edited by David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Sirenia indet. sirenian | |
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831 deinothere | |
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
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cf. Plesiaceratherium sp. Young 1937 rhinoceros | |
Artiodactyla indet. even-toed ungulate | |
cf. Procervulus dichotomus Gervais 1849 deer | |
cf. Lagomeryx parvulus Roger 1898 ruminant | |
Palaeomeryx sp. von Meyer 1834 ruminant | |
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig | |
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Ocadia sp. Gray 1870 turtle | |
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847 crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Channa ellipitca snakehead |