Brombach section: Burdigalian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Paroxystele amedei (Brogniart 1823)
2 fragments
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea depressa Lamarck 1822
14 specimens
recombined as Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) eryna (d'Orbigny 1852)
1 fragment
recombined as Haustator eryna
spp. rotundata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Euthriofusus burdigalensis (Defrance 1820)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Genota ramosa (Basterot 1825)
1 specimen
synonym of Genota valeriae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
? Echinophoria sp. Sacco 1890
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837
16 specimens
Neverita olla (De Serres 1829)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara diluvii (Lamarck 1805)
28 specimens
recombined as Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris deshayesi
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ephippium Linnaeus 1758
5 fragments
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten herrmannseni
4 fragments
Aequipecten camaretensis
16 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria phalaenacea
6 fragments
5 RV, 1 LV, 1 RV, 2 LV
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea gryphoides (Schlotheim 1813)
1 specimen
Ostrea digitalina (Eichwald 1830)
52 specimens
recombined as Cubitostrea digitalina
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cordiopsis islandicoides (Lamarck 1818)
4 fragments
Circomphalus haidingeri
1 fragment
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria sp. Lamarck 1799
2 fragments
Spisula brombachensis n. sp. Schneider and Mandic 2014
8 fragments
6 LV, 2 RV
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809
3 fragments
2 LV, 1 RV
Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus 1758)
4 fragments
3 RV, 1 LV
Bucardium hians
1 fragment
Europicardium multicostatum (Brocchi 1814)
1 fragment
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Psammotreta papyracea
1 fragment
Moerella donacina
2 fragments
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Moerella)
Arcopagia crassa (Pennant 1777)
2 fragments
recombined as Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.4° North, 13.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.6° North, 11.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: middle Ottnangian; late Burdigalian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy sandstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Lithology description: glauconitic sands and laminated marls
Environment:sand shoal
Geology comments: sandy-silty shoals at a water depth of presumably less than 20 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:164945
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-07 07:30:10 Last modified:2015-01-07 07:30:10
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-04-07 07:30:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53908. S. Schneider and O. Mandic. 2014. Middle Ottnangian (late Burdigalian) mollusks from the Rott Valley (SE Germany): the ultimate marine fauna of the Western Paratethys. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88:375-403 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]