Deutsch-Altenburg 9: Pliocene, Austria
collected by Mais & Rabeder et al. 1973-1974
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Rhinolophidae
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Rhinolophus cf. euryale
Blasius 1853
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Talpa cf. minor
Freudenberg 1914
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Beremendia sp.
Kormos 1930
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Crocidura cf. obtusa
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Episoriculus cf. gibberodon
Petenyi 1864
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus beremendensis
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus cf. sylvaticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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original and current combination Mus sylvaticus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Mimomys gracilis
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Mimomys septimanus
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Prospalax priscus
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Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Coluber sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Ophisaurus pannonicus
Kormos 1911
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recombined as Pseudopus pannonicus | |||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertidae
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Lacerta sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Austria | State/province: | Lower Austria | County: | Bruck an der Leitha |
Coordinates: | 48.1° North, 16.9° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 48.0° North, 16.8° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 295 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "younger Csarnotarium", i.e. Middle Pliocene |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | pebbly,rubbly,red lithified claystone | ||
Secondary lithology: | pebbly,rubbly,red unlithified claystone | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: "Im Frühjahr 1973 wurde in der 20 Meter hohen Abbauwand zwischen der 3. und 4. Etage ein kleines, mit roten Sedimenten gefülltes Karstobjekt angesprengt, das jedoch ohne Hilfsmittel nicht zugänglich war. Es erstreckte sich in einer Meereshöhe von etwa 294-296 m und war etwa zwei Meter hoch. Es kann auch nur wenige Meter in die Tiefe gegangen sein, denn nach der nächsten Sprengung im Herbst 1974 war keine Spur einer Fortsetzung zu erkennen. Bei diesem relativ kleinen Karsthohlraum handelt es sich um eine Schichtfugenhöhle, die in den etwa mit 50° nach Süden einfallenden Dolomit linsenförmig eingefugt war. Wahrscheinlich war sie ein Teil einer wesentlich größeren Höhle, doch dürften die bestandenen Verbindungen zu anderen Hohlräumen schon vor der Entdeckung der Fundstelle weggesprengt worden sein." [In spring of 1973 a small cave, filled with red sediment, was exposed in the quarry face between the 3rd and 4th level (~ 295 m a.s.l.) after a blasting operation. The cave was not accessible without special equipment and it could not have been very deep because there was no trace of it left after the next blasting in autumn of 1974. It was a lenticular cavity within the bedding joints of the dolomitic limestones of the Pfaffenberg hill which are dipping about 50° to the south. Probably it was part of a larger cave system and its connections to other cavities within the Pfaffenberg karst system may have been destroyed during quarry operations long before.] (Mais & Rabeder, 1977) "Das Sediment dieser Höhlenfüllung ist nach Niedermayer und Seemann (1974) ein 'tiefrotes, toniges und von gerundeten bis gut gerundeten Quarz und Quarzitgeröllen sowie von Sinter- und Dolomitbruchstücken durchsetztes Material'." [The sediment of the cave fill is a "deep red clayey material interspersed with well rounded pebbles of quartz and quartzite and with fragments of travertine and dolomite", according to Niedermayer & Seemann (1974, Die Höhle 25:3-11).] (Mais & Rabeder, 1977) "In der Feinfraktion des Schlämmgutes fanden wir neben den pliozänen Wirbeltierstücken auch stark abgerollte und korrodierte Foraminiferen und Bryozoen, die uns zeigten, daß es sich bei diesen Sedimenten um aufgearbeiteten Leithakalk handelt, der im Hangenden des Dolomitkörpers auch heute noch ansteht." [The finer grain-size fraction of the cave fill sediment included, besides the Pliocene vertebrate remains, heavily worn foraminifers and bryozoans, indicating that the cave sediment resulted from reworking of the Leitha Limestone [i.e. marine Badenian, TL] that today still forms the bedrock on top of the dolomitic limestone.] (Mais & Rabeder, 1977) The dolomitic limestone in which the caves have formed probably is of Middle Triassic age (Döppes & Rabeder, 1996, Mitt. Abt. Geol. Paläont. Landesmus. Joanneum 54, p. 24) and belongs to the alpidic basement of the Vienna Basin. | |||
Environment: | cave | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | peroxide,sieve,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Mais & Rabeder et al. | Collection dates: | 1973-1974 |
Collection method comments: UWPI = Paläontologisches Institut der Universität Wien [Vienna University Paleontological Institute]
"Dieser Ton war lagenweise sehr stark verfestigt, so daß er mehrmals mit Wasserstoffperoxid aufbereitet werden mußte, bis er schlämmbar wurde." [Some layers of the clay were strongly lithified so that it had to be treated repeatedly with hydrogenium peroxide before it was suitable for screenwashing.] (Mais & Rabeder, 1977) |
Metadata
Also known as: | Pfaffenberg, Hollitzer quarry | ||
Database number: | 167717 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2015-03-29 21:13:28 | Last modified: | 2015-03-30 10:03:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-03-29 21:13:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
54770. | K. Mais and G. Rabeder. 1977. Eine pliozäne Höhlenfüllung im Pfaffenberg bei Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Niederösterreich). Die Höhle 28(1):1-7 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |