Where: Germany (48.8° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 7.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• "Suevium moyen"
•According to Heissig (1984) the sediments are not in layers, do not indicate any fluviatile current, and the distribution of the fossils in the karstic system is irregular.
•JA: Suevian is early Oligocene
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Institut de Paléontologie et Géologie historique de l'Université de Munich
Primary reference: M.-C. Groessens-Van Dyck and H. H. Schleich. 1985. Nouveaux matériels de reptiles du Tertiaire d'Allemagne; 4, Nouveaux matériels des Tortues (Ptychogaster/Ergilemys) de la localité Oligocène moyen de Ronheim (Sud de l'Allemagne). [New finds of Tertiary Reptilia in West Germany; New turtles (Ptychogaster/Ergilemys) of the middle Oligocene in Ronheim, southern Germany.]. Muenchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe A: Geologie und Palaeontologie, Munich 4:17-66 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36984: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 21.02.2004, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Isoptychus sp. Pomel 1853 rodent
Suevosciurus ehingensis Dehm 1937 rodent
Suevosciurus fraasi Major 1873 rodent | |
Pseudosciurus suevicus rodent | |
Plagiolophus cf. minor Cuvier 1804 odd-toed ungulate | |
Ronzotherium cf. filholi Osborn 1900 rhinoceros | |
Eggysodon sp. Roman 1910 odd-toed ungulate | |
Bunobrachyodus sp. Deperet 1908 anthracothere | |
Entelodon degulhemi even-toed ungulate | |
? Amphitragulus sp. Pomel 1847 ruminant | |
Pseudogelocus scotti ruminant
Bachitherium curtum Filhol 1877 ruminant
Gelocus villebramarensis Brunet and Jehenne 1976 ruminant | |
Dichobune fraasi Schlosser 1902 even-toed ungulate | |
Tapirulus aff. hyracinus Gervais 1850 even-toed ungulate | |
Plesiomeryx cadurcensis Gervais 1873 even-toed ungulate
Paroxacron bergeri Heissig 1978 even-toed ungulate | |
Dacrytherium ovinum Owen 1857 even-toed ungulate
Diplobune bavarica Fraas 1870 even-toed ungulate
Diplobune quercyi Filhol 1877 even-toed ungulate | |
Reptilia | |
Ergilemys sp. Ckhikvadze 1972 turtle | |
Ptychogaster ronheimensis n. sp.
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Amphibia | |
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