Sandberg: MN 6 - MN 7 + 8, Slovakia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Eocetrus sp.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium laevius
corrected as Dinotherium
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium sp. de Christol 1840
Halitherium cordieri (de Christol in de Blainville 1844)
synonym of Metaxytherium medium
Thalattosiren petersi (Abel 1904)
synonym of Metaxytherium medium
Mammalia - Carnivora
Potamotherium miocenicum Peters 1868
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Pristiphoca vetusta (Zapfe 1937)
nomen dubium belonging to Phocadae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursavus brevirhinus Hofmann 1887
Hemicyon goeriachensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Trocharion albanense Forsyth-Major 1903
Lartetictis dubia (Blainville 1841)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836
Pseudarctos aff. bavaricus Schlosser 1899
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus lorteti Gaillard 1899
recombined as Miopanthera lorteti
Pseudaelurus turnauensis Hoernes 1882
recombined as Styriofelis turnauensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus stenheimensis
Aceratherium sp. Kaup 1834
Aceratherium aurelianense
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus telleri
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Schizodelphis cf. sulcatus (Gervais 1853)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Mesocetus hungaricus Kadic 1904
Mammalia - Suidae
Albanohyus pygmaeum
Conohyus simorrensis (Lartet 1851)
Hyotherium soemeringi
Listriodontinae indet. Simpson 1945
Mammalia
Taucanamo sansaniense Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium vindobonense von Meyer 1846
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Lagomeryx parvulus Roger 1898
Heteroprox larteti Filhol 1890
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx magnus
Palaeomeryx kaupi von Meyer 1834
Mammalia - Bovidae
Boselaphini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1997
Eotragus haplodon
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Griphopithecus suessi
Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Pliopithecus antiquus (Blainville 1839)
see common names

Geography
Country:Slovakia
Coordinates: 48.2° North, 17.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 16.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:MN 6 - MN 7 + 8
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Sandberg
Stratigraphy comments: Bulimia-Bolivina Zone of the Late Badenian, MN6b to MN 7+8
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,micaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: basal coarse clastics, micaceous sands, clayey sands, calcareous sandstone, organogene and organoditric limesone, breccias and gravel layers
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: nearshore marine
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:69712
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-03-02 13:55:42 Last modified:2017-02-19 22:44:25
Access level:database members Released:2007-06-02 13:55:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23390. M. Sabol and P. Holec. 2002. Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 53(4):269-279 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]