Przeworno 1, Lower Silesia: Langhian - Serravallian, Poland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Ophisaurus moguntinus
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Mlynarski 1984 | |||||||||
relatively abundant | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mlynarski 1984 | |||||||||
ZZSiD, small-sized | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium angustidens
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Chalicomys jaegeri
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Pseudaelurus quadridentatus
(de Blainville 1843)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Euprox furcatus
Hensel 1859
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium crassum
Lartet 1851
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Conohyus simorrensis
(Lartet 1851)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Anchitherium aurelianense
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aceratherium simorrense
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Brachypotherium brachypus
Lartet 1848
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Poland | State/province: | Silesia |
Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 17.2° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.0° North, 15.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Langhian - Serravallian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MN5-7, Middle Miocene. Karst fissures and channels in a marble quarry of probable Proterozoic age. Przeworno 1 is a horizontal channel fill at the bottom of the quarry. Probably the same age as Przeworno 2. |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: loams filling a horizontal channel. | |
Environment: | "channel" |
Geology comments: Horizontal channel in karst. |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: Site found in 1970. | |
Taxonomic list comments:Local environment probably mixed with both humid forests and savannas nearby (interpretation based on fauna). |
Metadata
Database number: | 42595 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Turner, T. Cleary, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, T. Cleary, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
Created: | 2004-08-03 06:37:56 | Last modified: | 2004-08-03 09:56:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-08-03 06:37:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11342. | PACED | K. Kowalski. 1990. Stratigraphy of Neogene mammals in Poland. In E.H. Lindsay, V. Fahlbusch and P. Mein, eds., European Neogene Mammal Chronology, Plenum Press, New York 193-209 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
70397 | M. Mlynarski. 1984. Notes on the amphibian and reptilian fauna of the Polish Miocene. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 27(8):127-148 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary] | |
65727 | Μ Mlynarski. 1984. Fossil Chelonians of Poland. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia, volumen especial 1 (Studia Palaeocheloniologica I) 1:189-203 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |