PBDB Collection

Langental (Miocene of Namibia)

Also known as Bogenfels

Where: Namibia (27.4° S, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 12.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• "Early Miocene... ca 20 Ma"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous marl

• "The Langental sediments consist of gypsiferous marls which have been overprinted by soil forming processes. Small calcrete nodules have been produced in places and these sometimes contain fossils... the paleosol consists of variegated and mottled clays and silts. Patches of sediment have escaped pedogenesis and it was in one of these areas, consisting of red suncracked shales, that [the creodont was] found."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: newly collected material, but the same locality may have first been described by Stromer 1926; other taxa apparently present

Primary reference: J. Morales, M. Pickford, and D. Soria. 1998. A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 327(9):633-638 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70807: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.04.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler, Evangelos Vlachos and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Carnivora - Nimravidae	Afrosmilus africanus⁴ Afrosmilus africanus⁴ Andrews 1914 false sabre-tooth LT 25’04, first phalanx; LT 228’99, left Mc V
Carnivora - Viverridae	Leptoplesictis namibiensis n. sp.⁴ Leptoplesictis namibiensis n. sp.⁴ Morales et al. 2008 civet LT 50’07, right m/1.
Carnivora - Amphicyonidae	Hecubides euryodon³, Ysengrinia sp.⁴ Hecubides euryodon³ Savage 1965 bear-dog Ysengrinia sp.⁴ Ginsburg 1965 bear-dog LT 164’98: right lower canine, LT 135’03: right pyramidal, LT 2´06: right scapholunar, LT 41’03: proximal fragment of left Mc II, LT 165’98: proximal epiphysis of left Mc III, LT 123’96: left Mt I, LT 230’99: first phalanx, LT 121’96: left Mt II, LT 122’96: proximal epiphysis of right Mt III, LT 5’01: left Mt IV
Creodonta - Teratodontidae	"Teratodontidae indet." = Teratodontinae⁴ "Teratodontidae indet." = Teratodontinae⁴ Savage 1965 creodont LT 125’04, fragment of left maxilla with the crowns of the molars (M3/-M1) damaged by erosion
Creodonta - Hyainailouridae	Metapterodon stromeri n. sp. Metapterodon stromeri n. sp. Morales et al. 1998 creodont LT 6’01, left M3/
Reptilia
Squamata -	Lacertilia "unidentified gen. et sp. 1"⁵ Lacertilia "unidentified gen. et sp. 1"⁵ lizard 1 fragment of dentigerous bone (LT 120’00)
Squamata - Colubridae	"Colubrinae" indet.⁵ "Colubrinae" indet.⁵ Oppel 1811 colubrid snake 1 incomplete trunk vertebra (LT 199’99)
Squamata - Boidae	Boidae indet.⁵, cf. Python "sp. B"⁵ Boidae indet.⁵ Gray 1825 boa about 15 fragmentary vertebrae (LT 57’99b, LT 70’03, LT 160’03, LT 177’96e) cf. Python "sp. B"⁵ Daudin 1803 boa 5 trunk vertebrae (LT 57’99a and LT 177’96a to d)
Testudines -	Pelomedusa senutpickfordina n. sp.² Pelomedusa senutpickfordina n. sp.² de Lapparent de Broin 2008 African helmeted turtle
Testudines - Testudinidae	aff. Homopus sp.¹, Namibchersus sp.¹ aff. Homopus sp.¹ Duméril and Bibron 1834 cape tortoise Namibchersus sp.¹ de Lapparent de Broin 2003 turtle

¹de Lapparent de Broin 2003; ²de Lapparent de Broin 2008; ³Morales et al. 2016; ⁴Morales et al. 2008; ⁵Rage 2008