Viehhausen: Langhian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydra allingensis n. sp. Fuchs 1939
synonym of Chelydropsis murchisoni
BSPG LI 118 (syntype), partial shell consisting of nuchal, two peripherals, two costals and a cervical vertebra; BSPG LI 128 (syntype), partial left carapace; BSPG LI 129 (syntype), right femur; BSPG LI 322 (syntype), right epiplastron; BSPG LI 592 (syntype), left partial hyoplastron in articulation with neighboring peripherals; BSPG LI 593 (syntype), partial skull? and girdle remains; BSPG LI 594 (syntype), six articulated costals and peripherals; BSPG LI 595 (syntype), articulated carapace fragments; BSPG LI 651 (syntype), our peripherals and shattered scapulacoracoid (parts figured in Fuchs 1939, fig. 26).
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Schleich 1984
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ocadia sophiae (Ammon 1911)
Schleich 1984
recombined as Mauremys sophiae
Clemmydopsis turnauensis (Meyer 1847)
Schleich 1984
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx bohemicus Liebus 1930
recombined as Rafetus bohemicus
jaegeri (new subspecies)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria County:Sinzing
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 12.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.2° North, 10.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian Mammal zone: MN5
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:190946
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2017-12-28 16:18:44 Last modified:2017-12-28 16:18:44
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-28 16:18:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64285. E. Fuchs. 1939. Die Schildkrötenreste aus dem Oberpfälzer Braunkohlentertiär. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 89:57-104 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

66150 H.H. Schleich. 1984. Neogene Testudines of Germany. Their stratigraphical and ecological evaluation. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia (Studia Palaeocheloniologica 1), volumen especial 1:249-267 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]