Nussdorf: Sarmatian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
original and current combination Phocadae
Phoca vindobonensis n. sp. Toula 1897
Toula 1897
recombined as Praepusa vindobonensis
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae
Pachyacanthus sp. Brandt 1871
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
Pachyacanthus suessi (Brandt 1871)
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
original and current combination Pachyacanthus suessii
Cetotherium ambiguum n. sp. Brandt 1872
synonym of Pachyacanthus suessii
Pachyacanthus letochae n. sp. Brandt 1873
synonym of Pachyacanthus suessii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Acrodelphinidae
Acrodelphidae indet. Abel 1905
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
corrected as Acrodelphinidae
Mammalia - Cetacea
Champsodelphis dubius n. sp. Brandt 1873
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti
Champsodelphis karreri n. sp. Brandt 1873
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti
Delphinoidea indet. Flower 1865
Kazár 2006 5 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodontidae indet. Slijper 1936
Kazár 2006 1 specimen
indet. 2
? Champsodelphis fuchsii n. sp. Brandt 1873
    = Kentriodon fuchsii Brandt 1873
Kazár 2006
Mammalia - Cetacea
? Liolithax sp. Kellogg 1931
Kazár 2006 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 48.2° North, 16.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 16.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Sarmatian
Age range of interval:12.70000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmatian (upper middle Miocene), Mohrensternia Zone, Volhynian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
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
Also known as:3. Ziegelgrube, Heiligenstadt
Database number:47080
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-02-07 13:17:10 Last modified:2009-02-27 11:11:09
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-07 13:17:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11981. J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

24600 D. Grigorescu and E. Kazár. 2006. A new Middle Miocene odontocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) locality and the Sarmatian Marine Mammal Event in the Central Paratethys. Oryctos 6:53-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
23642 E. Kazár. 2006. Odontocete periotics (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Carpathian Basin, Middle Miocene (Badenian and Sarmatian Stages), including the Vienna Basin, Austria. Beitrage zur Palaontologie 30:269-292 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12544 E. Kazár, M. Vremir, and V. Codrea. 2004. Dolphin remains (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the middle Miocene of Cluj-napoca, Romania. Acta Paleontologica Romanie 4:179-189 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
18748 J. Pia and O. Sickenberg. 1934. Katalog der in den Osterreichischen sammlungen befindlichen Saugetierreste des Jung-Tertiars Osterreichs un der Randgebiete. Denkschriften des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 4:1-544 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
18948 F. Toula. 1897. Phoca vindobonensis n. sp. von Nussdorf in Wien. Beiträge Palaeontologie Oesterreich-Ungarns und des Orients (Mojsisovics und Neumayer) 11:47-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]