PBDB Collection

Hernals: Langhian, Austria

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

	Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)	Pia and Sickenberg 1934
	original and current combination Phocadae

	Phoca vindobonensis Toula 1897	Pia and Sickenberg 1934
	recombined as Praepusa vindobonensis
Mammalia - Cetacea - Acrodelphinidae

	Acrodelphidae indet. Abel 1905	Pia and Sickenberg 1934
	corrected as Acrodelphinidae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

	Pachyacanthus sp. Brandt 1871	Pia and Sickenberg 1934

	Pachyacanthus suessii n. gen., n. sp. Brandt 1871
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

	Champsodelphis fuchsii Brandt 1873	Grigorescu and Kazár 2006
	recombined as Kentriodon fuchsii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

	Delphinus brachyspondylus n. sp. Brandt 1873	Van Beneden 1884
	= Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864	Pia and Sickenberg 1934

	Macrochirifer n. gen. vindobonensis Brandt 1874	Brandt 1874
	invalid subgroup of Balaenopteridae
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae

	Metaxytherium sp. de Christol 1840	Domning and Pervesler 2012
see common names

Geography

Country:	Austria
Coordinates:	48.2° North, 16.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	47.6° North, 15.9° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Langhian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:	Langhian
Age range of interval:	15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy comments: Sarmatian, Mohrensternia Zone, Volhynian; late middle Badenian (Domning and Pervesler, 2012)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Sarmat, Wolf Sandpit, Baumann Sandpit
Database number:	48029
Authorizer:	M. Uhen	Enterer:	M. Uhen
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-03-10 13:41:55	Last modified:	2013-07-15 12:05:57
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-03-10 13:41:55
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

12127.

J. F. Brandt. 1871. Bericht uber den Fortgang meiner Studien uber di Cetaceen, welche das grosse zur Tertiarzeit von Mitteleuropa bis Centralasien hinein ausgedehnte Meeresbechen bevolkerten. Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale de St. Petersbourg 1871:563-566 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

11981		J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12649		J. F. Brandt. 1874. Ergänzungen zu den Fossilen Cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VIIE Série 21(6):1-54 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
47582		D. P. Domning and P. Pervesler. 2012. The sirenian Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Dugongidae) in the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of Central Europe. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 105(3):125-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
24600		D. Grigorescu and E. Kazár. 2006. A new Middle Miocene odontocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) locality and the Sarmatian Marine Mammal Event in the Central Paratethys. Oryctos 6:53-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
18748		J. Pia and O. Sickenberg. 1934. Katalog der in den Osterreichischen sammlungen befindlichen Saugetierreste des Jung-Tertiars Osterreichs un der Randgebiete. Denkschriften des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 4:1-544 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
15446		P. J. Van Beneden. 1884. Une baleine fossile de Croatie, appartenant au genre Mesocete. Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 45:1-29 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]