Kienberg [S8] (Miocene of Czech Republic)

Where: Mikulov, Czech Republic (48.8° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: NN5 nannofossil zone, Hrušky Formation, Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• In the Spirorutilus carinatus Zone of the Vienna Basin regional biostratigraphic zonation (Brzobohatý

•et al. 2007).

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomerate and gray, calcareous claystone

• Marine waters in a subtropical climate, with depths of no more than 60 m. A high proportion of reef-associated taxa are also present.
• In the vicinity of Kienberg the Lower Badenian Sedlec Beds (chaotic coarse and blocky

•marine conglomerates) transgress over the rocks of the Ždánice Unit (Čtyroký 1993).

•Higher up, the sands, sandstones, algal sandstones and limestones and calcareous clays of

•the Hrušky Formation cover the Sedlec Member or lie directly on the Flysch sediments.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: sieve

• Deposited in the Oldrich Kroupa’s private collections in Brno (OKFos), and the Natural History Museum in

•Vienna (NHMWien, Inv.Nr. 2006z0344/0001 to …/0012).

Primary reference: O. Schultz, R. Brzobohatý, and O. Kroupa. 2010. Fish teeth from the Middle Miocene of Kienberg at Mikulov, Czech Republic, Vienna Basin. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 112:489-506 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

PaleoDB collection 161994: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 17.09.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Rhynchoconger pantanellii Bassoli and Schubert 1906 conger eel
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
Carapus aff. acus Brünnich 1768
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
 Perciformes - Sparidae
Dentex aff. maroccanus perch-like fish
Dentex gibbosus Nofl and Steurbaut 1979 perch-like fish
Boops hoops perch-like fish
Pagellus erythrinus perch-like fish
Pagellus cf. acarne Risso 1826 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Cepolidae
Cepola rubescens Linnaeus 1764 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Pomadasyidae
Brachydeuterus speronatus Bassoli 1906 perch-like fish
 Perciformes -
Lithognathus mormyrus Linnaeus 1758 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Scorpaenidae
Scorpaena notata scorpionfish
 Spariformes - Sparidae
Sparidae indet. Cuvier 1817
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
 Holocentriformes - Holocentridae
Myripristis aff. verus Steurbaut 1979
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus lahiams, "Trisopterus sculptus" = Palimphemus anceps
"Trisopterus sculptus" = Palimphemus anceps Kner 1862
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros albyi Sauvage 1880
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus kokeni lanternfish
Diaphus taaningi Norma 1930 slopewater lanternfish