Where: Niederösterreich, Austria (48.5° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 16.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Age: most of the gravels from Lower Pannon; Lower Pliocene
•JA: "Lower Pliocene" means early Late Miocene = Tortonian in the modern marine time scale
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; unlithified conglomerate and unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: H. Zapfe. 1948. Die Säugetierfauna aus dem Unterpliozän von Gaiselberg bei Zistersdorf in Niederösterreich (The Lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from Gaiselberg near Zistersdorf, Niederoesterreich (Lower Austria)). Jahrbuch der geologischen Bundesanstalt, Wien 93:83-97 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45043: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 30.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Mammalia | |
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean | |
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Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836 bear-dog | |
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat | |
Miotragocerus pannoniae Kretzoi 1941 antelope | |
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833 chevrotain | |
Anchitherium aurelianense, "Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825 anchitheriine horse
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti Sondaar 1974 hipparionine horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Chalicotherium goldfussi Kaup 1833 chalicothere |