Also known as Bogenfels
Where: Namibia (27.4° S, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 12.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• "Early Miocene... ca 20 Ma"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: newly collected material, but the same locality may have first been described by Stromer 1926; other taxa apparently present
Primary reference: J. Morales, M. Pickford, and D. Soria. 1998. A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 327(9):633-638 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70807: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.04.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler, Evangelos Vlachos and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Boidae indet.5 Gray 1825 boa about 15 fragmentary vertebrae (LT 57’99b, LT 70’03, LT 160’03, LT 177’96e)
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Pelomedusa senutpickfordina n. sp.2
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Metapterodon stromeri n. sp.
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"Teratodontidae indet." = Teratodontinae4
"Teratodontidae indet." = Teratodontinae4 Savage 1965 creodont LT 125’04, fragment of left maxilla with the crowns of the molars (M3/-M1) damaged by erosion
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Leptoplesictis namibiensis n. sp.4
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Ysengrinia sp.4 Ginsburg 1965 bear-dog LT 164’98: right lower canine, LT 135’03: right pyramidal, LT 2´06: right scapholunar, LT 41’03: proximal fragment of left Mc II, LT 165’98: proximal epiphysis of left Mc III, LT 123’96: left Mt I, LT 230’99: first phalanx, LT 121’96: left Mt II, LT 122’96: proximal epiphysis of right Mt III, LT 5’01: left Mt IV
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