PBDB Collection

Muthmannsdorf: Early/Lower Campanian, Austria
collected by Suess & Pawlowitsch 1870

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Araeosaurus gracilis n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881

	Pterosauria indet. (Kaup 1834)	Buffetaut et al. 2011	1 specimen
	UWPI 2349/103, five larger and six smaller fragments of wing phalanges.
Reptilia - Azhdarchidae

	Ornithocheirus sp. Seeley 1869	Wellnhofer 1980	1 specimen
	UWPI 2349/102, proximal half of right humerus
	= ? Nyctosauridae indet. Hay 1902	Jianu et al. 1997
	= Azhdarchidae indet. Nessov 1984	Buffetaut et al. 2011
Reptilia

	Ornithocheirus bunzeli n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881	1 specimen
	nomen dubium belonging to Pterodactyloidea
	UWPI 2349/101, rear end of left lower jaw
Reptilia - Dinosauria

	Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842	Bunzel 1871
Reptilia

	Megalosaurus pannoniensis n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881	2 specimens
	nomen dubium belonging to Tetanurae
	PIUW uncat.
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

	Oligosaurus adelus n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	synonym of Rhabdodon priscus

	Ornithomerus gracilis n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	synonym of Rhabdodon priscus

	Iguanodon suessi n. sp. (Bunzel 1871)	Bunzel 1871	9 specimens
	recombined as Rhabdodon suessi
	Lectotype right dentary (PIUW 2349/2); dDentary tooth (PIUW 2349/3); maxillary tooth (PIUW 2349/4); fragmentary parietal (PIUW 2349/54); fragmentary left scapula (PIUW 3518); fragmentary ?radius (PIUW 3517); ?manual ungual (PIUW 2349/38); fragmentary left femur (PIUW 2349/3); fragmentary ?right tibia (PIUW 2348/35) listed by Osi et al. (2012) (3 measurements)

	Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825	Bunzel 1871	1 specimen
	= Mochlodon sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	= Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003	Sachs and Hornung 2006

	Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758	Bunzel 1871	4 specimens
	= Zalmoxes sp. Weishampel et al. 2003	Sachs and Hornung 2006
Reptilia

	Rhadinosaurus alcimus n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	nomen dubium belonging to Ankylosauria
	(15 measurements)
Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	Struthiosaurus n. gen. sp. Bunzel 1870
	= Struthiosaurus austriacus n. sp. Bunzel 1871	Bunzel 1871
	PIWU 2349/6

	Danubiosaurus anceps n. gen., n. sp. Bunzel 1871	Bunzel 1871	1 specimen
	synonym of Struthiosaurus austriacus

	Pleuropeltus suessii n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	synonym of Struthiosaurus austriacus

	? Hylaeosaurus sp. Mantell 1833	Bunzel 1871	1 specimen
	= Crataeomus pawlowitschii n. gen., n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	synonym of Struthiosaurus austriacus

	Scelidosaurus sp. Owen 1859	Bunzel 1871	15 specimens
	= Crataeomus lepidophorus n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	synonym of Struthiosaurus austriacus
Reptilia

	Crocodilus carcharidens n. sp. Bunzel 1871	Bunzel 1871	1 specimen
	IPUW 2349/57
	= Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016

	Crocodilus sp. (Laurenti 1768)	Bunzel 1871	12 specimens
	= Crocodilus proavus n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	= Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016

	Crocodilia indet. Owen 1842	Bunzel 1871	1 specimen
	described as "Crocodili ambigui"
	= Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875	Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Reptilia - Champsosauridae

	Champsosauridae indet. Cope 1876	Buffetaut 1989	2 specimens
	2349/55a, 2349/55b (vertebral centra), referred to Iguanodon suessi by Bunzel (1871)
Reptilia - Testudines

	Emys informal sp. 2 Dumeril 1806	Seeley 1881
	= cf. Kallokibotioninae indet. Nopsca 1923	Rabi et al. 2013

	Emys informal sp. 3 Dumeril 1806	Seeley 1881
	= cf. Kallokibotioninae indet. Nopsca 1923	Rabi et al. 2013

	Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)	Bunzel 1871	2 specimens
	synonym of Testudines
	"Chersiten und Paludinosen"
Reptilia - Testudines - Dortokidae

	Dortokidae indet. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Rabi et al. 2013	2 specimens
Reptilia

	Emys neumayri n. sp. Seeley 1881	Seeley 1881
	= cf. Kallokibotioninae indet. Nopsca 1923	Rabi et al. 2013
	= Kallokibotion sp. Nopcsa 1923	Joyce 2017
see common names

Geography

Country:	Austria	State/province:	Niederosterreich
Coordinates:	47.8° North, 16.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	33.1° North, 17.9° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	262 meters
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Gosau	Formation:	Grünbach
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Gosau Subgroup

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	coal
Secondary lithology:	sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: coal-bearing beds, interbedded with sandstones and marls
Environment:	estuary/bay

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Lagerst�tten type:	concentrate
Degree of concentration:	concentrated
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:	many
Disassociated minor elements:	many
Fragmentation:	frequent

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	species names
Collection methods:	selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:	Suess & Pawlowitsch	Collection dates:	1870

Metadata

Also known as:	Gosau, Neue Welt, Weiner Neustadt
Database number:	48720
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Holroyd, R. Benson, P. Mannion, R. Butler	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Holroyd, R. Benson, P. Mannion, R. Butler
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-03-29 14:12:08	Last modified:	2023-10-26 13:53:18
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-03-29 14:12:08
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

12805.

ETE

E. Bunzel. 1870. Notice of a fragment of a reptilian skull from the Upper Cretaceous of Grünbach. Quarterly Review of the Geological Society of London 26:394 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

37976		E. Buffetaut. 1989. Erster nachweis von Choristodera (Reptilia, Diapsida) in der Oberkreide Europas: Champsosaurierwirbel aus den Gosau-Schichten (Campan) Niederösterreichs. Sitzungsberichten der Österreichs Akademis der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse, Abteilung I 197:389-394 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
34546		E. Buffetaut, A. Osi, and E. Prondvai. 2011. The pterosaurian remains from the Grünbach Formation (Campanian, Gosau Group) of Austria: a reappraisal of 'Ornithocheirus buenzeli. Geological Magazine 148:334-339 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
12997	ETE	E. Bunzel. 1871. Die Reptilfauna der Gosauformation in der Neuen Welt bei Weiner-Neustadt. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 5:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65036		A. Dinca, M. Tocorjescu, and A. Stilla. 1971. Despre vîrsta depozitelor continentale cu dinozaurieni din bazinele Hateg si Rusca Montana [On the age of continental deposits with dinosaurians from the Hateg and Rusca Montana basins]. Dari de Seama ale Sedintelor 58(4):83-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46182		A. Gaudry. 1890. Les Enchainements du Monde Animal dans les Temps Geologiques. Fossiles Secondaires 1-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62949		E. Hennig. 1915. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 9: Stegosauria 1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599		E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32135		C.-M. Jianu, D. B. Weishampel, and E. Stiuca. 1997. Old and new pterosaur material from the Hateg Basin (Late Cretaceous) of western Romania, and comments about pterosaur diversity in the Late Cretaceous of Europe. 2nd European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology, Espéraza-Quillan, Abstracts. Musée des Dinosaures, Espéraza [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
62124		W. G. Joyce. 2017. A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1):65-113 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]
7842		J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1991. Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., dinosaure théropode du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., a theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 25(5):585-594 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67934		J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1995. The evolution of Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrate fauna in Europe. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 181-184 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53030		B. F. Nopcsa. 1897. Vorläufiger Bericht über das Auftreten von oberer Kreide im Hátszeger Thale in Siebenbürgen [Preliminary report on the occurrence of the Upper Cretaceous in the Hátszeg Valley in Transylvania]. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, Wien 1897:273-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13876	ETE	B. F. Nopcsa. 1902. Notizen über cretacische Dinosaurier [Notes on Cretaceous dinosaurs]. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 111(1):93-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
51605		B. F. Nopcsa. 1929. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen V. [Dinosaur remains from Siebenbürgen V]. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 4:1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14501	ETE	D. B. Norman and D. B. Weishampel. 1990. Iguanodontidae and related ornithopods. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley 510-533 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43083		A. Osi, E. Prondvai, R. Butler and D. B. Weishampel. 2012. Phylogeny, histology and inferred body size evolution in a new rhabdodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary. PLoS ONE 7(9):e44318. [R. Benson/R. Benson]
17519	ETE	X. Pereda Suberbiola and P. M. Galton. 2001. Reappraisal of the nodosaurid ankylosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel from the Upper Cretaceous Gosau Beds of Austria. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 173-210 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
86182		E. Prondvai. 2014. Comparative bone histology of rhabdodontid dinosaurs. Palaeovertebrata 38(2):e1:1-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284		E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
59665		M. Rabi, M. Vremir, and H. Tong. 2013. Preliminary Overview of Late Cretaceous Turtle Diversity in Eastern Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and Romania). In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, and J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 307-336 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
17757	ETE	S. Sachs and J. J. Hornung. 2006. Juvenile ornithopod (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontidae) remains from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian, Gosau Group) of Muthmannsdorf (Lower Austria). Géobios 39:415-425 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12806	ETE	H. G. Seeley. 1881. The reptile fauna of the Gosau Formation preserved in the Geological Museum of the University of Vienna. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37(148):620-707 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]
17355	ETE	E. Suess. 1881. Note on the Gosau Beds of the Neue Welt, west of Weiner Neustadt. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37(148):702-703 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42854		R. Tabuce, M. T. Antunes, R. Smith and T. Smith. 2006. Dental and tarsal morphology of the European Paleocene/Eocene “condylarth” mammal Microhyus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1):37-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
19380	ETE	D. B. Weishampel, D. Grigorescu, and D. B. Norman. 1991. The dinosaurs of Transylvania. National Geographic Research & Exploration 7(2):196-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31157		P. Wellnhofer. 1980. Flugsauriereste aus der Gosau-Kreide von Muthmannsdorf (Niederösterreich) - ein Beitrag zur Kiefermechanik der Pterosaurier. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 20:95-112 [R. Butler/R. Butler]