Offenbach: MP 23 - MP 25, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
cf. Peratherium elegans Aymard 1846
SMF 3563, 3569, 3570, 3571
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
SMF 3565
Pseudocricetodon moguntiacus (Bahlo 1975)
SMF 3556-3558, 3560
Paracricetodon walgeri Bahlo 1975
SMF 3559
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
? Palaeosciurus cf. dubius
SMF 3557, 3551
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Sciurodon cadurcensis Schlosser 1884
SMF 3553
Plesispermophilus angustidens Filhol 1882
SMF 3552, 3554
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber sp. Geoffroy 1833
SMF 3545, 3547
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Bransatoglis sp. Hugueney 1967
SMF 3572
Mammalia - Soricidae
cf. Quercysorex sp. Engesser 1975
SMF 3543, 3566; named Sorex kinkelini by Zinndorf (1901)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
SMF 3562, 3564
cf. Paratalpa sp. Lavocat 1951
SMF 3567
Myxomygale aff. antiqua Filhol 1890
SMF 3548, 3561, 3568
Mammalia - Carnivora
cf. Stenoplesictis cayluxi Filhol 1880
SMF 3549
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Hesse
Coordinates: 50.1° North, 8.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.8° North, 5.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Rupelian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: MP 23 - MP 25
Age range of interval: 33.9 - 23.03 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cyrena Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cyrena Marls
Database number:186510
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-06-23 06:11:34 Last modified:2017-06-23 06:11:34
Access level:the public Released:2017-06-23 06:11:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62520. R. Ziegler and G. Storch. 2008. Mammals from the Cyrena Beds of Offenbach (Hesse) – Biostratigraphic correlation. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 248(3):267-278 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]