Also known as Hambach 11
Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (50.9° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 6.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN 16a mammal zone, Reuver clay Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Late Pliocene (MN 16a). Contemporaneous with Hambach horizon 13.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; lignite and lenticular, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. Čerňanský, Z. Szyndlar, and T. Mörs. 2017. Fossil squamate faunas from the Neogene of Hambach (northwestern Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 97:329-354 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199747: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 12.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Muscardinus aff. helleri Fejfar and Storch 1990 dormouse
"Glirulus cf. pusillus" = Amphidyromys pusillus Heller 1936 Japanese dormouse
Glis minor Kowalski 1963 dormouse | |
Blackia sp. Mein 1970 squirrel
Blackia aff. miocaenica Mein 1970 squirrel
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
Hylopetes hungaricus squirrel
Pliopetaurista pliocaenica squirrel | |
Trogontherium minus beaver
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Cervidae indet., ""Cervus" cf. pyrenaicus" = Croizetoceros pyrenaicus
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
""Cervus" cf. pyrenaicus" = Croizetoceros pyrenaicus Mennecart et al. 2017 deer | |
Galemys sp., Talpa cf. minor, Talpa europaea, Talpinae indet., Desmana cf. nehringi, Desmana cf. thermalis
Galemys sp. Kaup 1829 Pyrenean desman
Talpa cf. minor Freudenberg 1914 mole
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole
Talpinae indet. Fisher von Waldheim 1817 mole
Desmana cf. nehringi Kormos 1913 Russian desman
Desmana cf. thermalis Kormos 1930 Russian desman | |
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew
Blarinoides mariae Sulimski 1959 red-toothed shrew
Deinsdorfia hibbardi red-toothed shrew
Deinsdorfia sp. Heller 1963 red-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew | |
Reptilia | |
Emys sp. Dumeril 1806 pond turtle | |
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868 turtle | |
Natrix "sp. 2" Laurenti 1768 water snake IPB-HaR 3010, 3401, four trunk vertebrae. Designated as from MN 16 of Hambach, so placed here uncertainly.
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Pseudopus "sp. 2" Merrem 1820 legless lizard IPB-HaR 3006, right nasal; IPB-HaR 3007, four dorsal vertbrae; IPB-HaR 3008, twenty osteoderms that are split between Hambach 11 and 13, so are listed in both collections
Pseudopus cf. pannonicus Kormos 1911 legless lizard IPB-HaR 3002, left maxilla; IPB-HaR 3003, right dentary
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Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Amphibia | |
Mioproteus sp. Estes and Darevsky 1978 mudpuppy
Salamandridae indet. Gray 1825 newt
Andrias sp. Tschudi 1837 giant salamander | |
Latonia sp. von Meyer 1843 frog | |
? Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad | |
Palaeobatrachidae indet. Cope 1865 frog | |
Ranidae indet. Rafinesque 1814 frog | |
Actinopteri | |
Esox cf. lucius pike | |
Lucioperca cf. lucioperca Linnaeus 1758 perch | |
Perca cf. fluviatilis Linnaeus 1758 perch | |
Silurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 catfish | |
Rutilus cf. rutilus carp-like fish
Scardinius cf. erythrophthalmus carp-like fish | |
Insecta | |
Tinea cf. tinca moth |