Oggenhausen 2: MN 5, Germany
collected by E. P. J. Heizmann 1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Anisus sp. Studer 1820
"frequent"
    = Gyraulus applanatus Thomae 1845
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Planorbarius cornu (Brongniart 1810)
"very frequent"
    = Planorbarius mantelli Dunker 1848
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Radix sp. Montfort 1810
"very rare"
    = Lymnaea cf. dilatata Noulet 1854
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Galba dupuyiana (Noulet 1845)
"very frequent"
Gastropoda - Heterostropha
? Truncatellina sp. Lowe 1852
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Chondrinidae
Granaria sp. Held 1837
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Gastrocoptidae
Gastrocopta cf. nouletiana (Dupuy 1850)
"rare"
    = Gastrocopta nouletiana Dupuy 1850
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastrocopta acuminata (Klein 1846)
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Elonidae
Pseudochloritis incrassata (Klein 1853)
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Hygromiidae
Leucochroopsis sp. Boettger 1908
"rare"
    = Urticicola perchtae Salvador 2013
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Helicidae
Palaeotachea renevieri (Maillard 1892)
Salvador and Rasser 2016
Cepaea sp. Held 1838
"very rare"
    = Megalotachea silvana Klein 1853
Salvador and Rasser 2016
recombined as Palaeotachea silvana
Gastropoda - Discidae
Discus pleuradrus (Bourguignat 1881)
"rare"
unclassified
Crustacea indet. (Brünnich 1772)
invalid subgroup of Pancrustacea
"crab claws", "very frequent"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo cf. priscus
"rare"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Pelophylax sp. Fitzinger 1843
"very rare"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Hylidae
Hyla sp. Laurenti 1768
"very rare"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830
"rare"
Eopelobates sp. Parker 1929
"rare"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelodytidae
Pelodytes sp. Fitzinger 1838
"very rare"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Latonia ragei Hossini 1993
"frequent"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Salamandra sansaniensis Lartet 1851
"very rare"
Triturus cf. vulgaris (Linnaeus 1758)
"very frequent"
Triturus cf. marmoratus (Latreille 1800)
"very frequent"
Chelotriton paradoxus Pomel 1853
"frequent"
Mioproteus caucasicus Estes and Darevsky 1978
"very frequent"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Miodyromys vagus Mayr 1979
72 specimens
Microdyromys complicatus De Bruijn 1966
12 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus besanus Cuenca 1988
1 specimen
Heteroxerus aff. rubricati
24 specimens
Blackia miocaenica Mein 1970
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys thaleri Hugueney and Mein 1968
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon mutilus (Fahlbusch 1964)
13 specimens
Megacricetodon aff. minor Lartet 1851
15 specimens
Megacricetodon aff. bavaricus (Fahlbusch 1964)
115 specimens
Eumyarion spp.
8 specimens
"weinfurteri-latior-bifidus"
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Lagopsis cf. penai
7 specimens
Prolagus oeningensis (König 1825)
66 specimens
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Galerix symeonidisi Doukas 1986
12 specimens
Lanthanotherium aff. sansaniense
2 specimens
original and current combination Lantanotherium
Mammalia - Soricidae
Dinosorex cf. zapfei Engesser 1975
1 specimen
Crocidosoricinae indet. Reumer 1987
6 specimens
Mammalia - Talpidae
Mygalea jaegeri (Seemann 1938)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
cf. Paleptesicus noctuloides
7 specimens
cf. Paleptesicus sp. Zapfe 1970
5 specimens
Mammalia - Cainotheriidae
Cainotherium bavaricum Berger 1959
3 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus (de Blainville 1843)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverridae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
Mammalia
Amphiperatherium frequens (von Meyer 1846)
5 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys sp. Gray 1870
"very rare"
Reptilia - Viperidae
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811
"rare"; also, see comments on taxonomic list
Reptilia - Colubridae
cf. Elaphe sp. Wagler 1833
"rare"
cf. Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768
"rare"
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758
"rare"
Reptilia - Scincidae
? Tropidophorus bavaricus Böhme 2010
"rare"
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803
"frequent"
Reptilia
Diplocynodon cf. styriacus (Hofmann 1887)
synonym of Diplocynodon ungeri
"frequent"
Aves indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
"rare"
Actinopteri - Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
Gobius helvetiae
"very rare"
Actinopteri - Anabantiformes - Channidae
Channa cf. elliptica von Salis 1967
"frequent"
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Palaeocarassius sp. Obrhelová 1970
"frequent"
Palaeoleuciscus sp. Obrhelová 1969
"frequent"
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg County:Heidenheim
Coordinates: 48.7° North, 10.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.9° North, 8.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:MN 5 Mammal zone: OSM C
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.65000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Molasse Formation:Upper Freshwater Molasse
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The fossils come from a 15 to 50 cm thick bed of marl and clay wich is overlain by 2 m of gastropod limestones which, in turn, are overlain by ejecta of the Ries impact. Lithological and biostratigraphical data point to a stratigraphic position within the Upper Freshwater Molasse at the Lower/Middle Miocene boundary (middle part of MN5).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified marl
Secondary lithology: unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gastropod rich marl and clay
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve,field collection,survey of museum collection
Minimum sieve size:0.500
Rock censused:600 kg
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Collectors:E. P. J. Heizmann Collection dates:1980
Collection method comments: The fossils are from an artificial outcrop (a 10 m deep trench) that existed in 1980 at the construction site of the Ulm-Würzburg autobahn.
Taxonomic list comments:Szyndlar & Böhme (1993, Mertensiella 3) list Vipera sp. with reference to Szyndlar & Schleich (1993, Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. B 192). In the latter paper, however, no Vipera from Oggenhausen is mentioned. Szyndlar & Rage (2002, in Schuett et al. (eds.) Biology of vipers) explicitly state that no vipers are known from Oggenhausen. Böttcher et al. (2009) again list Vipera sp., based on newly prepared material. These findings, however, only comprise venom fangs based on which only identification on family level is possible (see, e.g., Syndlar & Schleich, 1993). Hence this taxon has been entered as Viperidae indet. in the taxonomic list. (TL)
Metadata
Database number:48325
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Clapham, J. Mueller Enterer:S. Kuemmell, T. Liebrecht, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:freshwater,vertebrate
Created:2005-03-16 08:36:45 Last modified:2023-08-05 00:58:29
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-16 08:36:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43885. R. Böttcher, E. P. J. Heizmann, M. W. Rasser and R. Ziegler. 2009. Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 254(1/2):237-260 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

85573 R. B. Salvador and M. W. Rasser. 2016. The fossil land and freshwater snails of Oggenhausen (Middle Miocene, Germany). Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 19:41-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]