Eggenburg: Burdigalian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium krahuletzi n. sp. Depéret 1895
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapiridae indet. (Gray 1821)
Daxner-Hoeck 1971
original and current combination Taperidae
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Brachyodus onoideus n. gen., n. sp.
Mammalia - Cetacea
Acrodelphis krahuletzi Abel 1900
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Cyrtodelphis sulcatus (Gervais 1853)
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
recombined as Schizodelphis sulcatus
var. incurvata
Cyrtodelphis sp. Abel 1900
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
synonym of Schizodelphis
Mammalia - Cetacea - Acrodelphinidae
Acrodelphidae indet. Abel 1905
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
corrected as Acrodelphinidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo noviciensis
Testudo antiqua Bronn 1831
Daxner-Hoeck 1971
subpecies noviciensis
Reptilia
Gavialosuchus eggenburgensis n. gen., n. sp. Toula and Kail 1885
Toula and Kail 1885
Holotype - skull
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 48.6° North, 15.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 15.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian Mammal zone: MN 3
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Burgeschleinitz
Stratigraphy comments: upper Eggenburgian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:65181
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-09-19 15:16:32 Last modified:2019-04-02 10:08:39
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-19 15:16:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18790. C. Depéret. 1895. Uber die Fauna von miocanen Wirbeltheieren aus der ersten Mediterranstufe von Eggenburg. Sitzb. Math-Nat. Cl. Ak. Wiss. Wien 104(1):395-416 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

34893 G. Bianucci, G. Carone, D. P. Domning, W. Landini, L. Rook and S. Sorbi. 2008. Peri-Messinian dwarfing in Mediterranean Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Sirenia): Evidence of habitat degradation related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Garyounis Scientific Bulletin 5:145-157 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
37050 G. Daxner-Hoeck. 1971. Vertebrata (excl. Pisces) der Eggenburger Schichtengruppe. Chronostratigraphie und Neostratotypen 2:761-777 [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]
50050 F. Toula and J. A. Kail. 1885. Über einen Krokodil−Schädel aus den Tertiärablagerungen von Eggenburg in Niederösterreich: eine paläontologische studie. Denkschriften der Keiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften von Wien, Mathematisch−Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 50:299-355 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]