Walbeck (Weferlingen): Selandian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Weigeltisuchus sp. Kuhn 1938
Weigelt 1940
synonym of Boverisuchus
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847
Weigelt 1940
Reptilia - Lithornithidae
Fissuravis weigelti n. gen., n. sp. Mayr 2007
1 specimen
WAL346.2007 - holotype (incomplete left coracoid)
Reptilia - Gastornithiformes - Gastornithidae
? Gastornis sp. Hébert 1855
1 specimen
WAL347.2007 (right coracoid)
Reptilia - Gruiformes
Gradiornis walbeckensis n. gen., n. sp. Mayr 2007
1 specimen
WAL349.2007 - holotype (left coracoid, lacking tuberculum brachiale and medial portion of extremitas sternalis); numerous referred specimens (WAL)
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Messelornithidae
? Walbeckornis informal sp. A Mayr 2007
1 specimen
WAL406.2007 (eft tarsometatarsus, lacking proximal and distal ends)
? Walbeckornis informal sp. B Mayr 2007
1 specimen
WAL100.2007 and WAL101.2007 (right coracoid); tentatively referred specimens: Right scapula, cranial end: WAL450.2007 (Fig. 5D). Left humerus, lacking proximal end: WAL408.2007 (Fig. 5E). Right tarsometatarsus, distal end: WAL415.2007
Walbeckornis creber n. gen., n. sp. Mayr 2007
1 specimen
WAL472.2007 - holotype (right tarsometatarsus); numerous referred specimens (WAL)
Reptilia - Strigiformes
Berruornis sp. Mourer-Chauviré 1994
Mayr 2002 1 specimen
WAL01.2001 (incomplete right tarsometatarsus)
    = Berruornis halbedeli n. sp. Mayr 2007
Mayr 2007
Aves indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
Mayr 2002
WAL02.2001 (premaxilla, lacking the tip)
    = Berruornis halbedeli Mayr 2007
Mayr 2007
tentatively referred
Reptilia - Boidae
Boidae indet. Gray 1825
Szyndlar and Böhme 1993 1 element
jaw fragment; first reported by Kuhn (1940, Zbl. Min. Geol. Paläont.)
Reptilia
Glyptosaurus walbeckensis n. sp. Kuhn 1940
Čerňanský et al. 2020
nomen dubium belonging to Amphisbaenia
Reptilia - Iguanidae
Parasauromalus paleocenicus
Čerňanský et al. 2020
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Arctocyonides weigelti Russell 1964
De Bast et al. 2013
Mentoclaenodon walbeckensis
De Bast et al. 2013
Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis walbeckensis n. sp. Russell 1964
Gingerich 1976
Mammalia - Primates - Saxonellidae
Saxonella crepaturae n. gen., n. sp. Russell 1964
Fox 1984
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Louisinidae
Walbeckodon krumbiegeli n. gen., n. sp. Hooker and Russell 2012
Hooker and Russell 2012
MLU.Wa104.2011 - holotype (left dentary with P4–M3); paratypes: L maxillary fragment with P3 and alveoli of P4, MLU.Wa/363; L maxillary fragment with P4, MLU.Wa/364; L upper composite DP4–M1, MLU.Wa/ 362; L DP4, MLU.Wa/416; L upper composite P4–M3, MLU.Wa/386; L dentary with P3–4, MLU.Wa/417; L dentary with P4–M2, MLU.Wa/387; L dentary with M1–3, MLU.Wa/365; L dentary with M2–3, alveoli for P3–M1, MLU.WB25; L dentary with P4–M3 (M2 with broken crown) and alveoli for P3, MLU.WB28; R dentary with P4 and alveoli for I2–P3, MLU.Wa/AC; R dentary with M2–3 and ascending ramus, MLU.Wa/Aa; R dentary with M3, alveoli for M2 and part of M1, MLU.WB26; composite RM1–3, MLU.Wa/420.
Louisina atavella n. sp. Russell 1964
Hooker and Russell 2012
recombined as Prolouisina atavella
MLU.Wa/356 - type (right dentary with P4–M3 and alveoli for P2–3); numerous paratypes listed by Russell (1964); referred material: Composite upper dentition (LP4–M2, two RP4, RM1–3), MLU.Wa/418; composite lower dentition (LP4, two LM3, RP3, P4, M3), MLU.Wa/419; L dentary with P4–M3, MLU.Wa103.2011
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Adapisoricidae
Adapisorex abundans
De Bast et al. 2013
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Paratricuspiodon krumbiegeli n. gen., n. sp. Russell 1964
Russell 1980
Wa 193 and 410
Mammalia - Adapisoriculidae
Adapisoriculidae indet. Van Valen 1967
Storch 2008
Remains of a small-bodied adult: right humerus, lacking the proximal end and being slightly damaged distolaterally (MLU.Wa101.2008); distal part of right and left humerus (MLU.Wa102-103.2008); two left femora, lacking the distal epiphysis (MLU.Wa104-105.2008)
? Adapisoriculus germanicus n. sp. Russell 1964
Gheerbrant and Russell 1989
recombined as Bustylus germanicus
Wa/358 - type (left dentary with m/2-3)
Afrodon germanicus (Russell 1964)
Gheerbrant and Russell 1989
recombined as Bustylus germanicus
Upper dentition: Wa/384 b (left M2), Wa/16122-1 (right M1), Wa/16122-2 (right M2); lower dentition: WA/359 (dentary with P/4), Wa/360 (dentary with M/3), Wa/361 (dentary with a broken M/3), Wa/383 (composite right P/4-M/2), Wa/35 (right dentary with P/4- M/1), Wa/16118 B (right M/l?), Wa/16119 (left dentary with M/2-3) and WB 9 (left dentary with P/4-M/3)
Afrodon sp. Gheerbrant 1988
Gheerbrant and Russell 1989
e.g. Wa/385
    = Bustylus cf. cernaysi Gheerbrant and Russell 1991
Gheerbrant and Russell 1991
Wa/385 (M1 and M2)
Mammalia - Pseudorhyncocyonidae
Diaphyodectes prolatus n. gen., n. sp.
Hooker 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Saxony-Anhalt County:Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 11.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.5° North, 8.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Selandian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Selandian
Age range of interval:61.60000 - 59.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "?upper Middle Paleocene (?MP 5, BiochroM'97, 1997)" = ? Selandian
thought by Gingerich (1976) on the basis of Plesiadapis walbeckensis to be "correlated somewhere between the Ples. anceps and Ples. rex zones" (i.e., middle Tiffanian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology: unlithified calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Infill of 14 m deep, N-S trending karstic fissure in late Early Triassic marly limestones (Lower Muschelkalk), consisting of mud (weathering remnant of the limestones) in the upper part and Early Oligocene marly sand including reworked Paleocene fossils in the lower part (Bachmann, 2008).
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The fissure was discovered in 1939. Subsequently it has completeley been mined out. Screenwashing of 16.5 m3 (33 t) of sediment revealed about 10,000 specimens (Bachmann, 2008). Most specimens are in the Geiseltal Museum in Halle, but some are in the BMNH (Gingerich 1976).
Metadata
Database number:74643
Authorizer:M. Uhen, J. Mueller, P. Mannion, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Uhen, T. Liebrecht, J. Alroy, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-21 12:55:41 Last modified:2021-03-22 10:58:16
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-21 12:55:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25122. G. Mayr. 2007. The birds from the Paleocene fissure filling of Walbeck (Germany). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):394-408 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

73169 A. Čerňanský, M. L. Augé, and A. Phelizon. 2020. Dawn of Lacertids (Squamata, Lacertidae): New Finds from the Upper Paleocene and the Lower Eocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1768539:1-4 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]
59929 E. De Bast, E. Steurbaut, and T. Smith. 2013. New mammals from the marine Selandian of Maret, Belgium, and their implications for the age of the Paleocene continental deposits of Walbeck, Germany. Geologica Belgica 16(4):236-244 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
1526 R. C. Fox. 1984. First North American record of the Paleocene primate Saxonella. Journal of Paleontology 58(3):892-894 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
42886 E. Gheerbrant and D. E. Russell. 1989. Presence of the genus Afrodon [Mammalia, Lipotyphla (?), Adapisoriculidae] in Europe; new data for the problem of trans-Tethyan relations between Africa and Europe around the K/T boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 76:1-15 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
42888 E. Gheerbrant and D. E. Russell. 1991. Bustylus cernaysi nov. gen., nov. sp., nouvel Adapisoriculidé (Mammalia, Eutheria) Paléocène d'Europe. Geobios 24(4):467-481 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
1635 P. D. Gingerich. 1976. Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 15:1-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
56880 J. J. Hooker. 2013. Origin and evolution of the Pseudorhyncocyonidae, a European Paleogene family of insectivorous placental mammals. Palaeontology 56(4):807-835 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
43830 J. J. Hooker and D. E. Russell. 2012. Early Palaeogene Louisinidae (Macroscelidea, Mammalia), their relationships and north European diversity. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164:856-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
44065 G. Mayr. 2002. An owl from the Paleocene of Walbeck, Germany. Fossil Record 5(1):283-288 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61388 D. E. Russell. 1980. Sur les Condylarthres Cernaysiens Tricuspiodon et Landenodon (Paléocène supérieur de France). Palaeovertebrata 9(Ext):127-166 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
42815 G. Storch. 2008. Skeletal remains of a diminutive primate from the Paleocene of Germany. Naturwissenschaften 95:927-930 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
43715 Z. Szyndlar and W. Böhme. 1993. Die fossilen Schlangen Deutschlands: Geschichte der Faunen und ihrer Erforschung [The fossil Snakes of Germany: History of the Faunas and their Investigation]. Mertensiella 3:381-431 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
26407 J. Weigelt. 1940. The first Paleocene mammalian fauna in Germany. Research and Progress 6:117-122 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]