Kainerding section: Burdigalian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula mayeri Hörnes 1865
2 fragments
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea digitalina (Eichwald 1830)
27 specimens
recombined as Cubitostrea digitalina
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limaria tuberculata (Olivi 1792)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ephippium Linnaeus 1758
2 fragments
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten herrmannseni
8 specimens
Aequipecten camaretensis
3 specimens
3 LV, 2 RV
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris deshayesi
42 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara diluvii (Lamarck 1805)
48 specimens
recombined as Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis sp. Schumacher 1817
2 specimens
2 LV, 1 RV
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Europicardium multicostatum (Brocchi 1814)
1 specimen
Bucardium hians
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Moerella donacina
7 specimens
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Moerella)
Gastrana fragilis (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia lupinus (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
recombined as Dosinia lupina
Macrocallista cf. erycinoides
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula basteroti (Hörnes 1870)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea depressa Lamarck 1822
2 specimens
recombined as Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Euthriofusus burdigalensis (Defrance 1820)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Paroxystele amedei (Brogniart 1823)
8 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.4° North, 13.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.6° North, 11.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: middle Ottnangian; late Burdigalian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy sandstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Lithology description: glauconitic sands and laminated marls
Environment:sand shoal
Geology comments: sandy-silty shoals at a water depth of presumably less than 20 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:164944
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-01-07 07:14:57 Last modified:2015-01-07 07:14:57
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-04-07 07:14:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53908. S. Schneider and O. Mandic. 2014. Middle Ottnangian (late Burdigalian) mollusks from the Rott Valley (SE Germany): the ultimate marine fauna of the Western Paratethys. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88:375-403 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]