Also known as HAM 5
Where: Bavaria, Germany (47.9° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 10.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: channel lag; gravel
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 2011-2018
Collection methods: quarrying, ,
• All Hammerschmiede fossils are stored in the palaeontological col-lection of the University of Tübingen (acronym GPIT), a research infrastructure of the Senckenberg Institute for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP) Tübingen.
Primary reference: M. Bohme, N. Spassov, J. Fuss, A. Troscher, A. S. Deane, J. Prieto, T. Lechner and D. R. Begun. 2019. A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans. Nature 1-18 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206345: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 13.11.2019, edited by Trent Grasso
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Amphibia | |
Andrias scheuchzeri Tschudi 1837 giant salamander
Chelotriton sp. Pomel 1853 newt
Triturus sp. Rafinesque 1815 newt
Scapherpetontidae indet. Auffenberg and Goin 1959 salamander
Mioproteus sp. Estes and Darevsky 1978 mudpuppy | |
Eopelobates sp. Parker 1929 spadefoot toad | |
Latonia gigantea Lartet 1851 frog | |
Bufo cf. viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad | |
Pelophylax sp. Fitzinger 1843 frog | |
Reptilia | |
Lazarussuchus sp. Hecht 1992 choristodere | |
Aves | |
Accipitriformes indet. Vieillot 1816 bird | |
Galliformes indet. fowl | |
Reptilia | |
Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates | |
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard
Pseudopus pannonicus Kormos 1911 legless lizard | |
Natricinae sp. Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake
Colubrinae sp. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Erycinae indet. Bonaparte 1825 sand boa | |
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868 turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Mauremys sarmatica Purschke 1885 pond turtle
Clemmydopsis sp. Boda 1927 turtle | |
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
Titanochelon sp. Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Anomalomys gaudryi Mein and Freudenthal 1971 rodent | |
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel
Albanensia grimmi Black 1966 squirrel
Blackia miocaenica Mein 1970 squirrel | |
Megacricetodon minutus, Eumyarion latior, Collimys hiri, Democricetodon sp., Microtocricetus molassicus
Megacricetodon minutus Daxner 1967 mouse
Eumyarion latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953 mouse
Collimys hiri mouse
Democricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Microtocricetus molassicus Fahlbusch and Mayr 1975 mouse | |
Chalicomys jaegeri beaver
Euroxenomys minutus von Meyer 1838 beaver | |
Keramidomys sp. Hartenberger 1966 rodent
Eomyops catalaunicus rodent | |
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840 dormouse
Microdyromys complicatus De Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Glirulus conjunctus Mayr 1979 Japanese dormouse
Muscardinus hispanicus de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Myoglis meini de Bruijn 1966 dormouse | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
Eurolagus fontannesi placental | |
Pliopithecidae indet. Zapfe 1961 monkey | |
Danuvius guggenmosi n. gen. n. sp.
Danuvius guggenmosi n. gen. n. sp. Bohme et al. 2019 ape | |
Plesiosorex schaffneri Engesser 1972 placental | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
Paenelimnoecus crouzeli Baudelot 1972 red-toothed shrew
Crusafontina exulta red-toothed shrew
Dinosorex sp. Engesser 1972 shrew | |
Erinaceinae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
Plesiodimylus johanni placental
Metacordylodon schlosseri Andreae 1904 placental | |
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833 chevrotain | |
Miotragocerus monacensis Stromer 1928 antelope | |
Muntiacini indet. Pockock 1923 deer
Euprox furcatus Hensel 1859 deer | |
Moschidae indet. Gray 1821 musk deer | |
Ancylotherium sp. Gaudry 1863 chalicothere | |
Hoploaceratherium belvederense rhinoceros | |
Sinohippus sp. Zhai 1962 anchitheriine horse | |
Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836 bear-dog | |
Musteloidea indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 carnivoran
Proputorius pusillus carnivoran
Proputorius sansaniensis Filhol 1891 carnivoran | |
Kretzoiarctos beatrix Abella et al. 2011 bear | |
Martes sansaniensis Lartet 1851 marten
Eomellivora piveteaui Ozansoy 1965 ratel
Trocharion albanense Forsyth-Major 1903 mustelid carnivore | |
Thalassictis montadai Villalta and Crusafont Pairo 1943 hyaena | |
Semigenetta grandis civet | |
"Styriofelis ? vallesiensis" = Leptofelis vallesiensis, Pseudaelurus quadridentatus
"Styriofelis ? vallesiensis" = Leptofelis vallesiensis Salesa et al. 2012 cat
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus de Blainville 1843 cat | |
"Deinotherium sp." = Dinotherium, "Deinotherium levius" = Deinotherium giganteum
"Deinotherium sp." = Dinotherium Kaup 1829 deinothere
"Deinotherium levius" = Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere | |
Tetralophodon longirostris Kaup 1832 gomphothere | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Actinopteri | |
Silurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 catfish | |
Palaeoleuciscus sp. Obrhelová 1969 carp-like fish
Tinca sp. Cuvier 1817 carp-like fish
Leuciscus sp. Cuvier 1817 carp-like fish
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816 carp-like fish | |
Perca sp. Linnaeus 1758 perch | |
Sciaenidae indet. Cuvier 1828 | |
Gobius sp. Linnaeus 1758 goby | |
Esox sp. Linnaeus 1758 pike |