Loretto: Sarmatian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx partschii n. sp. Peters 1855
Peters 1855
nomen dubium belonging to Trionychidae
Two costal fragments (syntypes) with uncertain whereabouts
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Grigorescu and Kazár 2006
Squaloceti indet. Abel 1914
Du Bus 1867
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae
Pachyacanthus suessi (Brandt 1871)
original and current combination Pachyacanthus suessii
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 48.8° North, 16.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.4° North, 16.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Sarmatian
Age range of interval:12.80000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Mohrensternia Zone, Volhynian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:73366
Authorizer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos Enterer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-13 09:02:23 Last modified:2009-02-27 11:17:11
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-13 09:02:23
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:

12761 B. Du Bus. 1867. Sur quelques mammiferes du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 24:562-577 [M. Uhen/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]
64242 K. F. Peters. 1855. Peters, Carl Ferdinand. Schildkrötenreste aus den Osterreichischen Tertiär-Ablagerungen: mit VI Tafeln. Aus der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofund Staatsdruckerei 1-18 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]