Enghausen: Langhian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bavaricum
von Meyer 1831
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| recombined as Prodeinotherium bavaricum | ||||||||||
| entered as "Dinotherium bavaricum" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium augustidens
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Euprox sp.
Stehlin 1928
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| Euprox/Heteroprox sp. | ||||||||||
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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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Lartetotherium sansaniense
Lartet 1837
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Brachypotherium brachypus
Lartet 1848
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Chalicotherium sp.
Kaup 1833
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unio sp.
Philipsson 1788
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Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bayern |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 11.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.8° North, 10.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 445 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: mittlere Serie der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (middle series of Upper Freshwater Molasse);About 20 m below the "Brockhorizont", a layer generated by the Ries-impact the Ries ejecta are 14.88 +/- 0.11 Ma old (Aziz et al. 2007), implying a Langhian age | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified conglomerate |
| Secondary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Most fossils are stored in the Bayerische Staatssammlung | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45599 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | S. Kuemmell |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-11-17 03:16:07 | Last modified: | 2007-04-12 15:03:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-17 03:16:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11994. | K. Heissig. 1989. Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria). Geologica Bavarica 94:239-257 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell] |