Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (50.0° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.0° N, 5.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 1 (23.0 - 22.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SMF, SMNS
Primary reference: R. Ziegler. 1990. Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) aus dem Oberoligozän und Untermiozän Süddeutschlands. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 167:1-81 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/J. Richter/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69617: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Juliette Richter on 28.02.2007, edited by Mark Uhen, Torsten Liebrecht, Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Limicorallus carbunculus n. sp.1
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"Trionyx gergensi" = Trionyx vindobonensis3
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Pseudopus sp.6 Merrem 1820 legless lizard Two cervical vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139918, 139919); 20 trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 17321, 139906, 139910/139914, 139923/139925, 139927/139934, 139936, 139937); nine caudal vertebrae (MGPT-PU 17319, 139907, 139908, 139915/139917, 139921, 139922, 139935)
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Serpentes indet.6 Linnaeus 1758 snake 14 vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139902, 139903, 139969, 139974, 139975, 139983, 139985)
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cf. Coluber cadurci5 Rage 1974 racer SMNS 59119; genus name actually set in quotation marks in the reference due to uncertain generic assignment
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Falseryx petersbuchi6 Szyndlar and Rage 2003 boa One cervical vertebra (MGPT-PU 139970); 95 trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 17320, 139909, 139926, 139939/139945, 139947, 139949/139968, 139976, 139980)
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Vipera cf. antiqua5 Szyndlar 1987 pit viper SMNS 59115, 59116 and one uncatalogued SMNS specimen figured by Szyndlar & Böhme (1993)
Vipera antiqua6 Szyndlar 1987 pit viper 14 trunk vertebrae (MGPT-PU 139900, 139901, 139938, 139948, 139971/139973, 139978, 139979, 139981, 139982, 139986, 139987)
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Palaeoblanus tobieni n. gen. n. sp.4
Palaeoblanus tobieni n. gen. n. sp.4 Schleich 1988 worm lizard 1 right dentary (= holotype, SMF - R 4349a) and two left dentaries (= paratypes, SMF - R 4349b + c)
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Dimylus paradoxus n. sp.7
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Paratalpa brachychir v. Meyer 1846 mole | |
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