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