PBDB Collection

Helmstedt: Bartonian - Priabonian, Germany

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

	Chelyopsis raabei n. sp. Karl and Schleich 1994	Karl 2007
	lower jaw
Mammalia - Cetacea

	Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762	Davydenko et al. 2023	1 specimen
	tibia fragment NMRx1799
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae

	Pachycetus humilis n. sp. Van Beneden 1883	Van Beneden 1883
	= "Zeuglodon" cf. osiris Dames 1894	Kuhn 1935
	See Kuhn (1935), Fig. 4
	= Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867	van Vliet et al. 2020
	Morphotype B (small ‘dorudontine’)

	cf. Dorudon osiris (Dames 1894)
	recombined as Saghacetus osiris

	Pachycetus sp. Van Beneden 1883	van Vliet et al. 2020
	morphotype A
	= Pachycetus paulsoni	Gingerich et al. 2022

	Dorudontidae indet. Miller 1923	Lienau 1984
	= Pachycetus sp. Van Beneden 1883	van Vliet et al. 2020
	morphotype A
	= Pachycetus paulsoni	Gingerich et al. 2022

	Pachycetus robustus n. gen., n. sp. Van Beneden 1883	Van Beneden 1883
	= "Zeuglodon" cf. isis Andrews 1904	Kuhn 1935
	See Kuhn (1935) fig. 3
	= Pachycetus paulsonii Brandt 1873	Gingerich et al. 2022
Mammalia

	Archaeoceti indet. Flower 1883
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae

	Myliobatis dixoni Agassiz 1843	Van Beneden 1883
	recombined as Aetomylaeus dixoni
	[entered as Myliobates dixoni]
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae

	Rajidae indet. Blainville 1816	Hillmer and Mundlos 1981
	scales
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae

	Lamna elegans Agassiz 1838	Van Beneden 1883
	synonym of Otodus macrotus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae

	Lamna cuspidata Agassiz 1843	Van Beneden 1883
	recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

	Fusus sp. Bruguière 1789	Van Beneden 1883
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae

	Gastrochaena sp. Spengler 1783	Van Beneden 1883
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae

	Pectunculus sp. Lamarck 1799	Van Beneden 1883
	synonym of Glycymeris
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

	Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758	Van Beneden 1883
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

	Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758	Van Beneden 1883
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae

	Hoploparia sp. M'Coy 1849	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968

	Hoploparia klebsi Noetling 1885	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Carcinidae

	Coeloma balticum Schluter 1879	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Geryonidae

	? Coeloma helmstedtense Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968
	recombined as Chaceon helmstedtense
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae

	Titanocarcinus zoellneri n. sp. Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Zanthopsidae

	Xanthopsis wilkeningi n. sp. Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968
	recombined as Harpactocarcinus wilkeningi
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae

	Raninoides sp. Milne-Edwards 1837	Bachmeyer and Mundlos 1968
see common names

Geography

Country:	Germany
Coordinates:	52.2° North, 11.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	50.7° North, 6.5° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Paleogene	Epoch:	Eocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:	Bartonian - Priabonian
Age range of interval:	41.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:

Gehlberg

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	glauconitic sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	46086
Authorizer:	M. Uhen, P. Barrett	Enterer:	M. Uhen, T. Cleary
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:	2005-01-03 06:39:34	Last modified:	2020-06-29 16:00:06
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-01-03 06:39:34
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

71748		F. Bachmeyer and R. Mundlos. 1968. Die tertiären Krebse von Helmstedt bei Braunschweig, Deutschland. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 72:649-692 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
85276		S. Davydenko, P. Goldin, M. Bosselaers, B. Vahldiek, and H. J. Vliet. 2023. Gross and microscopic anatomy of a tibia tentatively attributed to a cetacean from the Middle Eocene of Europe, with a note on the artiodactyl Anoplotherium and on the perissodactyl Lophiodon. PalZ [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
71694		H. B. Geinitz. 1883. Nachträge zu den Funden in den Phosphatlagern von Helmstedt, Büddenstedt u. a. Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 15:105-111 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
82775		P. D. Gingerich, A. Amane, and S. Zouhri. 2022. Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. PLoS One 17(10):e0276110 [M. Uhen/E. Medeiros/M. Uhen]
31095		G. Hillmer and R. Mundlos. 1981. Placoid dermal scales (tubercles) of rajoid skates from the Eocene of Helmstedt (northern Germany). Neuse Jarhbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie 1981(8):449-462 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
62970		H.-V. Karl. 2007. The fossil reptiles (Reptilia: Chelonii, Crocodylia) from the marine early Oligocene of the Weisselster Basin (Central Germany: Saxonia). Studia Geologica Salamanticensia 43(1):25-66 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Uhen]
6036	5% 49160	O. Kuhn. 1935. Archaeoceten aus dem norddeutschen Alttertiar. Zentr. Miner. Abt. B 6:219-226 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
72905		H.-W. Lienau. 1984. Die marinen Deckschichten (Mitteleozän-Unteroligozän) der Helmstedter Braunkohlen (Niedersachsen, BRD). Documenta Naturae 22:1-120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
71755		R. Mundlos. 1975. Ökologie, Biostratinomie, un Diagenese brachyurer Krebse aus dem Alt-TertiUar von Helmstedt (Niedersachsen, BRD). Neus Jahrbuch fUur Geologie und Paläontologie 148(1):252-271 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12813		P. J. Van Beneden. 1883. Sur quelques ossements de cetaces fossiles, recuelillis dans des couches phosphatees entre l'Elbe et le Wesser. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des lettres et des Beaux-Arts 6:27-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
72902		H. J. van Vliet, M. Bosselaers, B.-W. Vahldiek, T. Paymans, and I. Verheijen. 2020. Eocene cetaceans from the Helmstedt region, Germany, with some remarks on Platyosphys, Basilotritus and Pachycetus. Cainozoic Research 20(1):121-148 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]