Dielsdorf fissure 2: Late/Upper Eocene, Switzerland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Thaumastosaurus bottii
De Stefano 1903
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PIMUZ specimens | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Palaeopython cf. fischeri
Schaal 2004
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Georgalis and Scheyer 2019 | |||||||||
recombined as Eoconstrictor fischeri | ||||||||||
PIMUZ A/III 628 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Boidae
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Palaeopython informal sp. (morphotype 3)
Rochebrune 1880
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Georgalis and Scheyer 2019 | |||||||||
PIMUZ A/III 638 | ||||||||||
Palaeopython helveticus
Georgalis and Scheyer 2019
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Georgalis and Scheyer 2019 | |||||||||
PIMUZ A/III 635 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Theridomyidae
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Suevosciurus minimus
Major 1873
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Miacidae
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Simamphicyon helveticus
Pictet and Humbert 1869
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Palaeotheriidae
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Lophiotherium cf. cervulum
Gervais 1849
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Switzerland |
Coordinates: | 47.5° North, 8.5° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 46.2° North, 4.5° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | Mammal zone: | MP16-19 |
Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | fissure fill |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Baden and Wetting limestone quarry; Dielsdorf Spalte | ||
Database number: | 195854 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-08-28 11:36:35 | Last modified: | 2018-08-28 11:36:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-08-28 11:36:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
66667. | D. Vasilyan. 2018. Eocene Western European endemic genus Thaumastosaurus: new insights into the question "Are the Ranidae known prior to the Oligocene?''. PeerJ 6:e5511:1-24 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
69101 | G. L. Georgalis and T. M. Scheyer. 2019. A new species of Palaeopython (Serpentes) and other extinct squamates from the Eocene of Dielsdorf (Zurich, Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geosciences [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |