Also known as ETE Locality 1576, Messel,
Where: Hessen, Germany (49.9° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.8° E)
When: Messel Formation, MP 11 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0.
•Lower Middle-Eocene, Lutetian
•JA: MP 11
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 666, 664, 645, 493, 638, 983, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: E. Wittich. 1898. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Messeler Braunkohle und ihrer Fauna. Abhandlungen der großherzoglich Hessischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt 3(3):79-147 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22701: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by Philip Mannion, Susanna Kümmell, John Alroy, Emmanuel Fara, Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Mark Uhen, David Nicholson, Terri Cleary and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae | |
? Prunus sp. Linnaeus 1753 plum | |
Dombeyopsis | |
Dombeyopsis sp. Unger 1850 | |
Aves | |
"Dynamopterus cf. itardiensis" = Idiornis itardiensis15
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Masillastega rectirostris n. gen. n. sp.13
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Rhynchaeites messelensis n. gen. n. sp.
Rhynchaeites messelensis n. gen. n. sp. Wittich 1898 ibis | |
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? Pseudastur sp.11, Pseudastur macrocephalus n. gen. n. sp.11, Primozygodactylus quintus n. sp.16, Primozygodactylus longibrachium n. sp.16, Primozygodactylus eunjooae16, Primozygodactylus cf. danielsi16
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Eocoracias brachyptera17 Mayr and Mourer-Chauviré 2000 bird referred specimens in the SMF and HLMD collections
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Messelastur gratulator n. gen. n. sp.18
Messelastur gratulator n. gen. n. sp.18 Peters 1994 parrot type from "L13 (Grabungsstelle 32), 26-43 cm unter Leithorizont M"; referred specimen of Mayr 2011 is in the SMF
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"Pseudasturidae indet." = Halcyornithidae11
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Eofringillirostrum parvulum n. sp.10
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Reptilia | |
"Crocodilus ebertsi" = Crocodylus
"Crocodilus ebertsi" = Crocodylus crocodile | |
"Baryphracta deponiae" = Diplocynodon deponiae6
"Baryphracta deponiae" = Diplocynodon deponiae6 Frey et al. 1987 crocodilian IRSNB R 261 (near complete skeleton); IRSNB R 262 (IG 26467; exposing the ventral side)
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Alligator darwini Ludwig 1877 alligator | |
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"Ocadia messeliana" = Francellia messeliana8, "Ocadia kehreri" = Euroemys kehreri8, Borkenia aff. oschkinisi8
"Ocadia kehreri" = Euroemys kehreri8 Staesche 1928 turtle coll. IRSNB : 117 (Pl. 3, Fig. F), 289 (Pl. 3, Fig. C), 1-535, 26802 ; MNSD 580/77B18 (Groessens Van Dyck, 1978 : Fig. 2)
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"Anosteira gracilis n. sp." = Allaeochelys crassesculpta7
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"Palaeoamyda messeliana n. gen. n. sp." = Rafetoides messelianus3
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Mammalia | |
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Tachypteron franzeni n. gen. n. sp.19
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Darwinius masillae n. gen. n. sp.5
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Actinopteri | |
"Amia kehreri" = Cyclurus kehreri
"Amia kehreri" = Cyclurus kehreri Andreae 1893 bowfin | |
Paraprefica major n. sp.12
Paraprefica major n. sp.12 Mayr 1999 |