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 | |
Insecta | |
Tinea cf. tinca moth | |
Amphibia | |
Palaeobatrachidae indet. Cope 1865 frog | |
Ranidae indet. Rafinesque 1814 frog | |
? Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad | |
Latonia sp. von Meyer 1843 frog | |
Andrias sp. Tschudi 1837 giant salamander
Salamandridae indet. Gray 1825 newt
Mioproteus sp. Estes and Darevsky 1978 mudpuppy | |
Mammalia | |
Glis minor Kowalski 1963 dormouse
"Glirulus cf. pusillus" = Amphidyromys pusillus Heller 1936 Japanese dormouse
Muscardinus aff. helleri Fejfar and Storch 1990 dormouse | |
Hylopetes hungaricus squirrel
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
Pliopetaurista pliocaenica squirrel
Blackia sp. Mein 1970 squirrel
Blackia aff. miocaenica Mein 1970 squirrel | |
Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver
Trogontherium minus beaver | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
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 | |
Talpinae indet., Galemys sp., Desmana cf. thermalis, Desmana cf. nehringi, Talpa europaea, Talpa cf. minor
Talpinae indet. Fisher von Waldheim 1817 mole
Galemys sp. Kaup 1829 Pyrenean desman
Desmana cf. thermalis Kormos 1930 Russian desman
Desmana cf. nehringi Kormos 1913 Russian desman
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole
Talpa cf. minor Freudenberg 1914 mole | |
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 | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore | |
Reptilia | |
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868 turtle | |
Emys sp. Dumeril 1806 pond 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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Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates | |
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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Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Actinopteri | |
Esox cf. lucius pike | |
Perca cf. fluviatilis Linnaeus 1758 perch | |
Lucioperca cf. lucioperca Linnaeus 1758 perch | |
Rutilus cf. rutilus carp-like fish
Scardinius cf. erythrophthalmus carp-like fish | |
Silurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 catfish |