Doberg bei Bünde: Chattian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Psephophorus sp. von Meyer 1847
Rothausen 1986
Reptilia - Testudines
? Pseudosphargis ingens
Rothausen 1986
Mammalia - Sirenia - Trichechidae
Anomotherium langewieschei n. gen., n. sp. Siegfried 1965
Siegfried 1965
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Eosqualodon langewieschei n. sp. Rothausen 1968
Rothausen 1986
Mammalia - Cetacea
Phoca ambigua n. sp. Meyer 1840
Meyer 1840
recombined as Microcetus ambiguus
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Nordrhein-Westfalen County:Detmold
Coordinates: 52.2° North, 8.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.0° North, 5.6° East
Altitude:74 meters
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Chattian
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Doberg
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:37598
Authorizer:E. Fara, M. Uhen Enterer:E. Fara, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Nelson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-03-17 08:50:57 Last modified:2023-06-12 14:38:34
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-17 08:50:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10055.5% 42140K. Rothausen. 1961. Ueber Microcetus, einen kleinen Squalodontiden aus dem Oberoligozaen. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 112(1):106-116 [E. Fara/E. Fara/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

34059 C. G. Diedrich. 2008. The food of the miosiren Anomotherium langenwieschei (Siegfried) - indirect proof of seaweed or seagrass by xenomorphic oyster fixation structures in the Upper Oligocene (Neogene) of the Doberg, Bunde (NW Germany) and comparisons to modern Dugong dugon (Muller) feeding strategies. Senckenbergiana Maritima 38(1):59-73 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
36697 H. Meyer. 1840. Phoca ambiguua, Munster. Beitrage zur Petrefacten-Kunde 3:1-11 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12298 K. Rothausen. 1986. Marine Tetrapoden im tertären Nordsee-Becken. Beitrage zur regionalen Geologe der Erde 18:510-557 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
18813 P. Siegfried. 1965. Anomotherium langewieschei n.g. n. sp. (Sirenia) aus dem Ober-Oligozan des Dobergs bei Bunde/Westfalen. Sonder-Abdruck aus Palaeontolographica 124(4-6):116-150 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]