Bruck an der Leitha: Serravallian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium sp. de Christol 1840
Domning and Pervesler 2012 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae
Pachyacanthus suessi (Brandt 1871)
original and current combination Pachyacanthus suessii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Champsodelphis fuchsii Brandt 1873
Grigorescu and Kazár 2006
recombined as Kentriodon fuchsii
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 16.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 16.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Baden Formation:Leitha
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmatian, Mohrnsternia Zone; ?Late Badenian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate 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:73276
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-07 14:35:58 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:29:55
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-07 14:35:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]
24600 D. Grigorescu and E. Kazár. 2006. A new Middle Miocene odontocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) locality and the Sarmatian Marine Mammal Event in the Central Paratethys. Oryctos 6:53-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]