Pölfing-Brunn (Miocene of Austria)

Also known as Poelfing-Brunn

Where: Styria, Austria (46.7° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN5 mammal zone, Eibiswald Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Based on mammal fauna, a Karpatian age was assigned to the Eibiswald Formation (Mottl, 1970), corresponding to MN6–MN5. However, Gruber et al. 2003 correlated the Eibiswald Formation to younger deposits of badenian age, which was corroborated by K-Ar dates of tuff samples in the coal horizon of the formation, suggesting a minimum depositional age of ~15.22Ma (Handler et al. 2006). The Badenian was redefined in Hohenbegger et al. 2014.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Heritsch. 1909. Jungtertiäre Trionyxreste aus Mittelsteiermark. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 59:333-382 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190940: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 26.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Trionyx peneckei n. sp." = Trionyx vindobonensis
"Trionyx peneckei n. sp." = Trionyx vindobonensis Peters 1855 softshell turtle