Przeworno 1, Lower Silesia: Langhian - Serravallian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus moguntinus
Mlynarski 1984
relatively abundant
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mlynarski 1984
ZZSiD, small-sized
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Chalicomys jaegeri
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus (de Blainville 1843)
Mammalia - Cervidae
Euprox furcatus Hensel 1859
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium crassum Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Suidae
Conohyus simorrensis (Lartet 1851)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium aurelianense Cuvier 1825
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium simorrense
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848
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]