Mikulov: Tortonian, Czech Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella bicarinata Elchwald 1830
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Pyrula condidia
synonym of Ficus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Pleurotoma dimidiata
synonym of Turris
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella bellardii
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837
see common names

Geography
Country:Czech Republic
Coordinates: 48.8° North, 16.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.5° North, 16.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:211 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Badenian. "Juttner (in Kalasek et al., 1963) found on this or other close locality the remains of mastodon Gomphotherium angustidens and rangesd the beds to the Sarmatian. Kalasek et al. ranged the beds to the Tortonian (Badenian). It is the right age determination."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green poorly lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified calcareous claystone
Lithology description: ...grey to greenish, partly variegated and variably sandy, mostly soft, only in bottom layers of semi-compact unstratified, disintegrating calcareous clays. Less frequent are clays, often sandy, and grey, mostly fine-grained micaceous quartzous sands. Thickness of the Upper Badenian in the basin is 700-1000m, 100-200m in peripheries.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Cujan sand-pit
Database number:34581
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2003-09-10 18:19:21 Last modified:2003-12-11 15:49:30
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-10 18:19:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9130.5% 22760P. Holec. 1985. Finds of mastodon (Proboscidea, Mammalia) relics in Neogene and Quaternary sediments of Slovakia (CSSR). Zapadne Karpaty, ser. paleontologia 10:13-53 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]