Szentmargita: Serravallian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Asterigerinidae
Asterigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Spiroloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Anthozoa
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Kazár and Lantos 2001
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Chlamys) elegans
Kazár and Lantos 2001
original and current combination Chlamys
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Kazár and Lantos 2001
stomach contents of Heterodelphis leiodontus
Mammalia - Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Thalattosiren petersi (Abel 1904)
Sickenberg 1928 1 specimen
synonym of Metaxytherium medium
Mammalia - Cetacea
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762
Kazár and Lantos 2001
Mammalia - Cetacea - Acrodelphinidae
Acrodelphidae indet. Abel 1905
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
corrected as Acrodelphinidae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Heterodelphis leiodontus n. sp. Papp 1905
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
Mammalia - Cetacea
"Cetotherium" priscum (Eichwald 1840)
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
nomen dubium belonging to Cetacea
Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
Sparus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Kazár and Lantos 2001
stomach contents of Heterodelphis leiodontus
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Kazár and Lantos 2001
shark teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria State/province:Burgenland
Coordinates: 47.8° North, 16.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.3° North, 16.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Baden Formation:Leitha
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: = Rakos Formation in Hungary, age is Late Badenian (Domning and Pervesler 2012)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Geology comments: shallow reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:St. Margarethen, Roman Quarry, St. Margaret
Database number:56694
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-22 09:31:35 Last modified:2018-09-07 17:00:23
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-22 09:31:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15276. C. Papp. 1905. Heterodelphis leiodontus nova forma aus den Miocenen schichten des comitates sopron in Ungarn. Mitteilungen aus dem Jahrbuche der Kongigl. Ungarischen Geologischen Anstalt 14(2):25-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

47582 D. P. Domning and P. Pervesler. 2012. The sirenian Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Dugongidae) in the Badenian (Middle Miocene) of Central Europe. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 105(3):125-160 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
24574 E. Kazár and Z. Lantos. 2001. Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the holotype of Heterodelphis leiodontus Papp, 1905 (Cetacea, Mammalia) from Szentmargita (St. Margerethen, Austria). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 19:51-60 [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]
36482 O. Sickenberg. 1928. Eine sirene aus dem Leithakalk des Burgenlandes. Denkschriften, Akademie der Wissenshcaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschafliche 101:293-323 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]