Brunn-Vösendorf (Miocene of Austria)

Where: Austria (48.1° N, 16.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Congerienschichten, Pannonian E

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified mudstone

• "Congeria subglobosa. Harzhauser and Mandic (2004) suppose this large and heavily calcified bivalve to be adapted to muddy, low energetic hypolimnion environment, poor on oxygen with supersaturated sulfidic interstitial waters. It should be a significant biotope, which could play an important role in evolution of the endemic Lake Pannon fauna." Starek & Pipík, 2007. The formation of the Pannonian Basin System commenced in the Early and the Middle Miocene as the consequence of the continental collision of the African (=Apulian) and European plates, and deposition in the entire basin was influenced by important extensional tectonics.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Peter Ullrich; reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: A. Papp and K. Mandl. 1951. Insekten aus den Congerienschichten des Wiener Beckens. Sitzungsberichte der Östereichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 160:295-302 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127417: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 13.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Congeria subglobosa3
Insecta
 Diptera - Sciaridae
"Lycoria schremmeri n. sp." = Sciara schremmeri2
"Lycoria schremmeri n. sp." = Sciara schremmeri2 Bachmayer 1961 dark-winged fungus gnat
NHMW 402/1961
 Odonata - Aeshnidae
"Aeschna voesendorfensis n. sp." = Aeshna voesendorfensis
"Aeschna voesendorfensis n. sp." = Aeshna voesendorfensis Papp and Mandl 1951 hawker dragonfly
NHMW 18/1952
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
? Lygaeidae indet.
? Lygaeidae indet. Schilling 1829 milkweed bug
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
"Camponotus ullrichi n. sp." = Myrmecites ullrichi1, "Aphaenogaster pannonicus n. sp." = Paraphaenogaster pannonica1
"Camponotus ullrichi n. sp." = Myrmecites ullrichi1 Bachmayer 1960 ant
NHMW 368/1960
"Aphaenogaster pannonicus n. sp." = Paraphaenogaster pannonica1 Bachmayer 1960 ant
NHMW 367/1960
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
"Silphidae indet." = Staphylinidae2
"Silphidae indet." = Staphylinidae2 Latreille 1802 carrion beetle
NHMW 403/1961
1Bachmayer 1960; 2Bachmayer 1961; 3Nel et al. 1994