Unterzolling Prodeinotherium skeleton: MN 6, Germany
collected by Mr. Schneider and K. Heissig 1977
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Prodeinotherium bavaricum
(von Meyer 1831)
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1 individual | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bavaria |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 11.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.7° North, 10.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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
| Formation: | Upper Freshwater Molasse | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "most likely... from sandy layers about 15-23 m above the 'Brockhorizont' at the base of the pit" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: "sandy layers" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: "limnofluviatile" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Disassociated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated minor elements: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | BSP | ||
| Collectors: | Mr. Schneider and K. Heissig | Collection dates: | 1977 |
| Taxonomic list comments:not the same as Unterzolling 1a and 1b, which were collected later in the same gravel pit | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kronthaler gravel pit | ||
| Database number: | 73996 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-07-16 10:31:18 | Last modified: | 2013-01-30 18:35:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-16 10:31:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24841. | K. Huttunen and U. B. Göhlich. 2002. Un squelette partiel de Prodeinotherium bavaricum (Proboscidea, Mammalia) du Miocène moyen de Unterzolling (Molasse d’eau douce supérieure, Allemagne). Geobios 35(4):489-514 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |