Zapfe's fissures: MN 6, Slovakia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Miodryomys hamadryas
Haploaceratherium cf. tetradactylum
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis (Schintz 1824)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium bavaricum (von Meyer 1831)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Paleptesicus priscus Zapfe 1950
Miniopterus fossilis Zapfe 1950
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
Megaptera lugdunensis
this is a bat, not a whale!
    = Megaderma lugdunensis Depéret 1892
Uhen 2500
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus delphinensis Gaillard 1899
Rhinolophus grivensis Depéret 1892
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Dicerorhinus stenheimensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotherium grandae
Mammalia - Lagomerycidae
Heteroprox larteti Filhol 1890
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx magnus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Eotragus haplodon
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium vindobonense von Meyer 1846
Mammalia - Suidae
Aureliachoerus aurelianensis
Hyotherium soemeringi
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus sp. Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Sansanosmilus jourdani Filhol 1883
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursavus brevirhinus Hofmann 1887
Hemicyon sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Hemicyon cf. sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Trocharion albanense Forsyth-Major 1903
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ailuridae
Alopecocyon leptorhynchus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon cf. steinheimensis
Amphicyon major De Blainville 1841
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
"Scaptonyx" edwardsi Gaillard 1899
? Urotrichus dolichochir (Gaillard 1899)
Talpa minuta Blainville 1840
Mammalia - Soricidae
Dinosorex zapfei Engesser 1975
Dinosorex zapfei n. sp. Engesser 1975
Engesser 1975
"Allosorex" gracillidens
Lartetium aehmi
Mammalia - Dimylidae
Plesiodimylus chantrei Gaillard 1899
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Lanthanotherium sansaniense
original and current combination Lantanotherium
Amphechinus intermedius (Gaillard 1899)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus bredai
Blackia micoenica
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys carpathicus (Schaub and Zapfe 1953)
Eomyops indet. Engesser 1979
Mammalia - Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
Anomalomys gaudryi Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Bransatoglis astaracensis (Baudelot 1970)
Myoglis larteti Baudelot 1966
Muscardinus (Eomuscardinus) sansaniense
Microdyromys miocaenicus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953
Eumyarion weinfurteri Schaub and Zapfe 1953
Megacricetodon schaubi
Megacricetodon gregarius (Schaub 1925)
Cricetodon sansaniensis Lartet 1851
Democricetodon vindobonensis
Lartetomys cf. zapfei Mein and Freudenthal 1971
Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Pliopithecus vindobonensis Zapfe and Hürzeler 1957
Reptilia - Gekkonidae
Euleptes sp. (Fitzinger 1843)
Daza et al. 2014 8 specimens
previously Phyllodactylus (Estes 1969); PIUW (Coll. Zapfe) a left maxilla; [no specimen no.], the anterior part of the left dentary up to the 10th tooth loci
    = Euleptes klembarai n. sp. Čerňanský et al. 2018
Čerňanský et al. 2018
NHMW 1977/1865 (holotype), almost complete left maxilla [presumably the same mentioned in the previous diagnosis]; NHMW 1977/1865/0084, right dentary; NHMW 1977/1865/0113, right pterygoid; NHMW 1977/1865/0116, one cervical vertebra; NHMW 1977/1865/0117-20, four dorsal vertebrae
Reptilia - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820
Klembara and Rummel 2018 1 specimen
SNM PP 1393, parietal
see common names

Geography
Country:Slovakia State/province:Bratislava County:Bratislava IV
Coordinates: 48.2° North, 17.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° North, 16.7° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:MN 6
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 12.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MN 6 biozone (Astaracian, the uppermost part of the Badenian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Neudorf-Spalte, Stockerau limestone quarry, Devínska Nová Ves [= Neudorf a. d. March]
Database number:69711
Authorizer:M. Uhen, L. van den Hoek Ostende, P. Barrett, T. Cleary Enterer:M. Uhen, T. Cleary, L. van den Hoek Ostende
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-03-02 13:18:01 Last modified:2020-06-05 15:42:17
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-02 13:18:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23390. M. Sabol and P. Holec. 2002. Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 53(4):269-279 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

67902 A. Čerňanský, J. D. Daza, and A. M. Bauer. 2018. Geckos from the middle Miocene of Devínska Novà Ves (Slovakia): new material and a review of the previous record. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 111:183-190 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]
59595 J. D. Daza, A. M. Bauer, and E. D. Snively. 2014. On the fossil record of the Gekkota. The Anatomical Record 297:433-462 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
23639 B. Engesser. 1975. Revision der europäischen Heterosoricinae (Insectivora, Mammalia). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 68(3):649-671 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
69175 J. Klembara and M. Rummel. 2018. New material of Ophisaurus, Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae, Anguinae) from the Miocene of the Czech Republic and Germany and systematic revision and palaeobiogeography of the Cenozoic Anguinae. Geological Magazine 155(1):20-44 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]