Thomas Beton sandpit (Oligocene of Germany)

Also known as Kobrow

Where: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (53.7° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sülstorf Beds Member (Sternberg Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Eochattian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous sandstone

• calcite-cemented, fine-grained sandstones and siltites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Moths, K. Thiede, and N. Thiede. 2004. Zahnwalreste aus dem Sternberger Gestein (Eochattium, Oligozän) von Norddeutschland. Der Geschiebesammler 37(2):71-79 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80366: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.04.2008, edited by Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Chelyopsis sp.1 Smets 1887 sea turtle
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873 toothed whale
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae
Keasius septemtrionalis n. sp.2 Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 basking shark