St. Pankraz Schwarzerzsch. level: Lutetian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
? Manouria (Hadrianus) sp. Gray 1852
    = Cheirogaster steinbacheri n. sp. Karl 1996
Karl 1996
    = Pelorochelon cf. eocaenica Hummel 1935
Pérez-García et al. 2016
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 47.9° North, 13.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 11.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: below the Fossilschicht bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Schwarzerzsch."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: presumably a black or dark grey bed; terrestrial inferred based on presence of a tortoise
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:176938
Authorizer:P. Holroyd, P. Mannion Enterer:P. Holroyd, P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-03-08 23:54:43 Last modified:2016-03-08 23:54:43
Access level:the public Released:2016-03-08 23:54:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

58397. H. H. Schleich. 1988. Eozäne Schildkrötenreste (Reptilia, Testudines) von St. Pankraz am Haunsberg (Österreich). Stvdia Geologica Salmanticensia ESPECIAL (3): ETUDES SUR LES CHELONIENS DU CENOZOIQUE DE L'EUROPE CENTRALE 3:165-184 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

54172 H.-V. Karl. 1996. Einige Bemerkungen über die fossilen Schildkröten (Reptilia, Testudines) des Bundeslandes Salzburg, Österreich [Some remarks on the fossil turtles (Reptilia, Testudines) from the federal country of Salzburg, Austria]. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 136:389-426 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]
59713 A. Pérez-García, F. Ortega, and E. Jimenez Fuentes. 2016. Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:648-675 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]