Grosse-Pampau (Miocene of Germany)

Also known as Gross Pampau, Groß Pampau,Groß Pampau

Where: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (53.5° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 53.8° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Glimmerton Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Langenfeldian, Bolboforma fragori/subfragoris zone; 10.6-11.8 Ma

•Stratigraphically, it is approximately concordant with the level of the middle/late Miocene (Serravalian/Tortonian) boundary, based on the bio- stratigraphically very important Bolboforma zona- tion (Fig. 2).

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; claystone

• marine, inner to outer neritic
• Miocene clay; mica-clay facies

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G. Hopfner. 1991. Aus der Urzeit Aufgetaucht: Whale und Haie. Der Geschiebesammler 24(3-4):107-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53894: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodon hoepfneri n. sp.4 Kazár and Hampe 2014 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
Delphinoidea indet.2 Flower 1865 toothed whale
Physeteroidea indet.5 Gray 1868 toothed whale
MNUL.Pal.100.755
Hoplocetus ritzi n. sp.2 Hampe 2006 toothed whale
Thinocetus sp.3 Kellogg 1969 whale
Thinocetus sp. ‘Groß Pampau’
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Praemegaptera pampauensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Praemegaptera pampauensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Behrmann 1995 rorqual
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra forchhammeri6 auger snail
supspecies excavata
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte fusca6 clam
supspecies incrassata