Where: Germany (49.6° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• middle Lower Oligocene, "middle Latorf"
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone and concretionary, brown, yellow, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic
Preservation: concretion
Primary reference: V. Fahlbusch and N. Schmidt. 1969. Uber ein weiter unteroligozane Spaltenfullung von Weissenburg. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssamlung fuer Paleontologie und Histoische Geologie 9:209-211 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34630: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 13.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Peratherium sp. Aymard 1850 marsupial | |
Cynodictis sp. Bravard and Pomel 1850 bear-dog | |
Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole | |
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel | |
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Isoptychus siderolithicus rodent
? Oltinomys sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951 rodent
Suevosciurus aff. ebingensis rodent
Suevosciurus fraasi Major 1873 rodent | |
"Gliravus priscus" = Glamys priscus, "Peridyromys micio" = Schizogliravus micio
"Gliravus priscus" = Glamys priscus Stehlin and Schaub 1951 dormouse
"Peridyromys micio" = Schizogliravus micio Misonne 1957 dormouse | |
Reptilia | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle |