Tongrube Wienerberger: Serravallian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae
Alcini indet. Storer 1960
Smith and Mayr 2013 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Heterocetus sprangi (Van Beneden 1886)
nomen dubium belonging to Heterocetus
Mammalia - Cetacea
Amphicetus sp. Van Beneden 1880
Diorocetus sp. Kellogg 1968
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Schleswig–Holstein
Coordinates: 53.3° North, 9.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.6° North, 8.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Luneburgian, lower Langenfeldian; Smith & Mayer (2013) states this locality is Tortonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Freetz
Database number:124766
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-02-23 08:13:52 Last modified:2013-06-19 15:34:45
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-23 08:13:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40371. O. Hampe and I. Ritsche. 2011. Bie Bartenwalfauna (Cetacea: Mysticeti: Balaenomorpha) aus dem Luneburgium (Serravallium, Mittelmiozan) von Freetz bei Sittensen (Niedersachsen, Deutschland). Zeistschrift fur Geologische Wissenschaften 39(2):83-110 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

47261 N. A. Smith and G. Mayr. 2013. Earliest northeastern Atlantic Ocean basin record of an auk (Charadriiformes, Pan-Alcidae): fossil remains from the Miocene of Germany. Journal of Ornithology 154:775-782 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]