Eggingen-Schleiche: Burdigalian, Germany
collected by K. Heissig 1996
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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cf. Diaceratherium aurelianense
Nouel 1866
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Plesiaceratherium sp.
Young 1937
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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: | 518 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, Orleanian (Sach & Heizmann, 2001) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine sandy gravel | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: in contrast to the Eggingen-Mittelhart quarry, no "chocolate marls" are exposed | |||
| 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 |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 3 specimens | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BSP | ||
| Collectors: | K. Heissig | Collection dates: | 1996 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 70321 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-21 08:29:34 | Last modified: | 2022-03-02 08:36:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-21 08:29:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |