Where: Austria (48.5° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 16.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: MN9 mammal zone, Hollabrunn-Mistelbach Formation, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)
• Biostratigraphic investigations (Harzhauser 2009, this volume) and welllog correlations point to a correspondence of the Atzelsdorf fauna with the Vienna Basin Pannonian Zone C, basal MN9, and an absolute age of about 11.211.1 Ma (for more details, see harzhauser 2009, this volume).
Environment/lithology: deltaic; unlithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: U. B. Göhlich. 2009. The early Vallesian vertebrates of Atzelsdorf (Late Miocene, Austria) 5. Aves. Annalen Des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 111 A:509-514 [M. Uhen/S. Tucker/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 192458: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.04.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Anserinae indet., "Anas cf. sansaniensis" = Chenoanas sansaniensis
Anserinae indet. Vigors 1825 goose
"Anas cf. sansaniensis" = Chenoanas sansaniensis Milne-Edwards 1867 waterfowl |