Nussdorf: Sarmatian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
Phoca vindobonensis n. sp. Toula 1897
Toula 1897
Mammalia - Cetacea - Acrodelphinidae
Acrodelphidae indet. Abel 1905
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
Mammalia - Cetacea
? Liolithax sp. Kellogg 1931
Kazár 2006 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodontidae indet. Slijper 1936
Kazár 2006 1 specimen
indet. 2
? Champsodelphis fuchsii n. sp. Brandt 1873
    = Kentriodon fuchsii Brandt 1873
Kazár 2006
Mammalia - Cetacea
Delphinoidea indet. Flower 1865
Kazár 2006 5 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae
Pachyacanthus sp. Brandt 1871
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
Pachyacanthus suessi (Brandt 1871)
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
Cetotherium ambiguum n. sp. Brandt 1872
Pachyacanthus letochae n. sp. Brandt 1873
Mammalia - Cetacea
Champsodelphis dubius n. sp. Brandt 1873
Champsodelphis karreri n. sp. Brandt 1873
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864
Pia and Sickenberg 1934
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 48.2° North, 16.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 16.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Sarmatian
Age range of interval: 12.8 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmatian (upper middle Miocene), Mohrensternia Zone, Volhynian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:3. Ziegelgrube, Heiligenstadt
Database number:47080
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-02-07 13:17:10 Last modified:2009-02-27 11:11:09
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-07 13:17:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11981. J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

24600 D. Grigorescu and E. Kazár. 2006. A new Middle Miocene odontocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) locality and the Sarmatian Marine Mammal Event in the Central Paratethys. Oryctos 6:53-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
23642 E. Kazár. 2006. Odontocete periotics (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Carpathian Basin, Middle Miocene (Badenian and Sarmatian Stages), including the Vienna Basin, Austria. Beitrage zur Palaontologie 30:269-292 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12544 E. Kazár, M. Vremir, and V. Codrea. 2004. Dolphin remains (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the middle Miocene of Cluj-napoca, Romania. Acta Paleontologica Romanie 4:179-189 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
18748 J. Pia and O. Sickenberg. 1934. Katalog der in den Osterreichischen sammlungen befindlichen Saugetierreste des Jung-Tertiars Osterreichs un der Randgebiete. Denkschriften des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 4:1-544 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
18948 F. Toula. 1897. Phoca vindobonensis n. sp. von Nussdorf in Wien. Beiträge Palaeontologie Oesterreich-Ungarns und des Orients (Mojsisovics und Neumayer) 11:47-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]