Geiseltal, untere Oberkohle (lower Uppercoal): Late/Upper Eocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Eolacertidae
Eolacerta robusta n. sp. Nöth 1940
Haubold 1977
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
Hyrachyus minimus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Lophiodontidae
? Lophiodon tapirotherium Desmarest 1822
Lophiodon tapirotherium Desmarest 1822
Fischer 1964
    = Lophiodon remensis Lemoine 1878
Fischer 1977
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Propalaeotherium parvulum (Laurillard 1849)
original and current combination Lophiodon parvulum
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Sachsen-Anhalt
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 12.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.1° North, 7.6° 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
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Untere Oberkohle
Stratigraphy comments: Franzen & Haubold 1986: Upper Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lignite
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45003
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-09-27 04:29:50 Last modified:2008-11-13 15:49:43
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-27 04:29:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11714.5% 24940H. Haubold. 1982. Zur Stellung der Wirbeltierfauna des Geiseltals, insbesondere der Mammalier, im europäischen Mitteleozän (Position of the European Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna of the Geisel Valley, with special focus on mammals). Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften 10(12):1539-1551 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]

Secondary references:

11932 K.-H. Fischer. 1964. Die tapiroiden Perissodactylen aus der eozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltales (The tapiroid Perissodactyla from the eocene Lignit of the Geiseltal). Geologie, Beihefte 45:1-101 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
11934 K.-H. Fischer. 1977. Neue Funde von Rhinocerolophiodon (n. gen.), Lophiodon und Hyrachyus (Ceratomorpha, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) aus dem Eozän des Geiseltals bei Halle (DDR); Teil 2: Lophiodon. (New fossils of Rhinocerolophiodon (n. gen.), Lophiodon and Hyrachyus from the Eocene of the Geiseltal, Halle (DDR); second part: Lophiodon). Zeitschrift der geologischen Wissenschaften 5(9):1129-1152 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
119415% 23500J. L. Franzen and H. Haubold. 1986. Revision der Equoidea aus den eozänen Braunkohlen des Geiseltales bei Halle (DDR). (Revision of Equoidea from the Eocene lignite of the Geiseltal, Halle (DDR)). Palaeovertebrata, Montpellier 16(1):1-34 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Hellert]
12101 H. Haubold. 1977. Zur Kenntnis der Sauria (Lacertilia) aus dem Eozän des Geiseltals (The Sauria (Lacertilia) from the Eocene of Geiseltal). Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Wissenschaftliche Beiträge (P5) 1977(2) [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]
11716 G. Krumbiegel. 1977. Genese, Palökologie und Biostratigraphie der Fossilfundstellen im Eozän des Geiseltales/1 (Origin, paleoecology and biostratigraphy of the fossil localities in the Eocene Geiseltal). Wissenschaftliche Beiträge der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 2:113-138 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]