PBDB Collection

Petersbuch 18: MN 7 + 8, Germany

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Cricetodon jumaensis n. sp. Rummel 2001	Rummel 2001
Mammalia - Erinaceidae

	Parasorex socialis		178 specimens

	Erinaceinae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817		3 specimens

	"Mioechinus" sp. Butler 1948		12 specimens
Mammalia - Dimylidae

	Plesiodimylus chantrei Gaillard 1899		1 specimen
Mammalia - Talpidae

	Desmanella cf. stehlini Engesser 1972	Ziegler 2003

	Talpa minuta Blainville 1840	Ziegler 2003
Mammalia - Soricidae

	Paenesorex bicuspis Ziegler 2003	Ziegler 2003

	Paenesorex aff. bicuspis Ziegler 2003	Ziegler 2003

	Petenyia aff. dubia Bachmayer and Wilson 1970	Ziegler 2003

	Paenelimnoecus crouzeli Baudelot 1972	Ziegler 2003
Reptilia - Varanidae

	Varanus sp. Merrem 1820	Vasilyan and Bukhsianidze 2020
see common names

Geography

Country:	Germany	State/province:	Bavaria
Coordinates:	49.0° North, 11.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	49.3° North, 10.1° East
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Altitude:	535 meters

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:	MN 7 + 8
Age range of interval:	12.80000 - 11.10000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Lithology and environment

Environment:

fissure fill

Taphonomy

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	67163
Authorizer:	L. van den Hoek Ostende, J. Head	Enterer:	L. van den Hoek Ostende, G. Varnham
Modifier:	L. van den Hoek Ostende	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2006-11-11 06:55:39	Last modified:	2006-11-11 15:17:39
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-11-11 06:55:39
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

19154.

R. Ziegler. 2005. Erinaceidae and Dimylidae (Lipotyphla) from the Upper Middle Miocene of South Germany. Senckenbergiana lethaea 85(1):131-152 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]

Secondary references:

26891		M. Rummel. 2001. Ein neuer Cricetodon aus dem Miozän von Petersbuch bei Eichstätt. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde B 311:1-6 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
72358		D. Vasilyan and M. Bukhsianidze. 2020. The fossil record of the genus Varanus from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia). PeerJ 8(e8322):1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
19408		R. Ziegler. 2003. Shrews (Soricidae, Mammalia) from Middle Miocene karstic fissure fill sites of Petersbuch near Eichstätt, southern Franconian Alb (Bavaria). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 77(2):303-322 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
19413		R. Ziegler. 2003. Moles (Talpidae) from the late Middle Miocene of South Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(4):617-648 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]