Eggingen-Mittelhart 3: Burdigalian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Coretus sp. Gray 1847
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
Sparidae indet. (Cuvier 1817)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Actinopteri - Perciformes
Perciformes indet. Bleeker 1859
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Reptilia
Gavialosuchus sp. Toula and Kail 1885
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Ptychogaster sp. Pomel 1847
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium cf. medium (Desmarest 1822)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium cf. angustidens Burmeister 1837
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bavaricum von Meyer 1831
Sach and Heizmann 2001
recombined as Prodeinotherium bavaricum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
cf. Diaceratherium aurelianense Nouel 1866
Sach and Heizmann 2001
cf. Prosantorhinus germanicus Wang 1929
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Prosantorhinus cf. douvillei Osborn 1902
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Plesiaceratherium lumiarense Antunes and Ginsburg 1983
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Paratapirus cf. intermedius Filhol 1885
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Scaldicetus sp. Du Bus 1867
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Cetacea - Acrodelphinidae
Acrodelphidae indet. Abel 1905
Sach and Heizmann 2001
corrected as Acrodelphinidae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodontidae indet. Brandt 1873
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Elomeryx borbonicus Geais 1934
Sach and Heizmann 2001
reworked from Lower Freshwater Molasse deposits
Mammalia - Tragulidae
cf. Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer 1846
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Dorcatherium vindobonense von Meyer 1846
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia
Amphimoschus pontileviensis Bourgeois 1873
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Cervidae
Procervulus cf. dichotomus Gervais 1849
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
cf. Ligeromeryx praestans (Stehlin 1937)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx kaupi von Meyer 1834
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Suidae
Bunolistriodon aff. latidens
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Aureliachoerus aurelianensis
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Hyotherium cf. meissneri von Meyer 1850
Sach and Heizmann 2001
reworked from Lower Freshwater Molasse deposits
Hyotherium soemmeringi von Meyer 1834
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Creodonta
Hyainailouros sulzeri Biedermann 1863
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus cf. lorteti Gaillard 1899
Sach and Heizmann 2001
recombined as Miopanthera lorteti
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae indet. Haeckel 1886
Sach and Heizmann 2001
originally entered as "Amphycyonidae indet."
Amphicyon cf. major De Blainville 1841
Sach and Heizmann 2001
originally entered as "Amphicon cf. major"
Cynelos cf. helbingi Dehm 1950
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Thaumastocyoninae indet. Hurzeller 1940
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber depereti Mayet 1908
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Andrias scheuchzeri Tschudi 1837
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias crassidens
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Carcharias acutissimus (Agassiz 1843)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Carcharias cuspidatus (Agassiz 1843)
Sach and Heizmann 2001
recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Viviparus suevicus Wenz 1919
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Helicidae
Cepaea sp. Held 1838
Sach and Heizmann 2001
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
cf. Unio sp. Philipsson 1788
Sach and Heizmann 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg County:City of Ulm
Coordinates: 48.4° North, 9.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.5° North, 8.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:521 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Molasse Formation:Brackwater Molasse Member:Grimmelfinger Schichten
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: basal Grimmelfingen beds ("Grimmelfinger Graupensande"), late Early Miocene, Middle Orleanian (Sach & Heizmann, 2001)

Pippèrr et al. 2007: Biostratigraphical studies based on otoliths and small mammals suggest that the Upper Brackish Molasse is Late Ottnangian in age (e.g. ZIEGLER & FAHLBUSCH 1986; REICHENBACHER et al. 2004). Adding support to this age estimate is the positive correlation of the Upper Brackish Molasse with the sediments in Switzerland and the Rzehakia Beds of the Central Paratethys (SENES 1973; REICHENBACHER et al. 1998).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,coarse unlithified sandy gravel
Secondary lithology:black,brown poorly lithified calcareous,carbonaceous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fine to coarse sandy gravel, cutting down into deep black to dark brown marls ("chocolate marls") of the Lower Freshwater Molasse. The fossils are exclusively from the gravely beds.
Environment:estuary/bay Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: the Grimmelfingen beds are interpreted as tidally influenced estuarine deposit (other authors, however, regard the Grimmelfingen beds as entirely fluvial) and thus as the basal unit of the transgression of the Upper Freshwater Molasse Sea (Sach & Heizmann, 2001)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:sieve
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Collection method comments: the sand pit was active in the 1970s and 1980s; fossil collecting must have taken place in this period
the fossiliferous layer is not accessible anymore
additional institution housing material from Egg.-Mh. 3: Museum des Mineralien- u. Fossilien-Vereins Gerstetten (MFVG)
Metadata
Database number:49102
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-08 14:00:08 Last modified:2022-01-25 08:50:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-08 14:00:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13125. G. Pilleri. 1986. The Cetacea of the Western Paratethys 1-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

79240 M. Pippèrr, B. Reichenbacher, W. Witt and A. Rocholl. 2007. The Middle and Upper Ottnangian of the Simssee area (SE Germany): Micropalaeontology, biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 245(3):353-378 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]
23602 V. J. Sach and E. P. J. Heizmann. 2001. Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 310:1-95 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]