Oggenhausen 2
Basic information
Sample name: Oggenhausen 2
Reference: R. Böttcher, E. P. J. Heizmann, M. W. Rasser, and R. Ziegler. 2009. Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palåontologie - Abhandlungen 254(1-2):237-260 [ER 2354]
Geography
Country: Germany
Coordinate: 48° 40' N, 10° 9' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: MN5
Ma: 15.5
Geography comments: "directly SW of the town Oggenhausen" (coordinate based on Heidenheim an der Brenz)
"Early/Middle Miocene transition (mammal unit MN 5)" and specifically in the early part of MN 5 before the Early/Middle Miocene boundary (this interpretation of MN 5 differs from that of Costeur and Legendre 2008, which I am following and which indicates an age of about 15.5 Ma for early MN 5)
"Early/Middle Miocene transition (mammal unit MN 5)" and specifically in the early part of MN 5 before the Early/Middle Miocene boundary (this interpretation of MN 5 differs from that of Costeur and Legendre 2008, which I am following and which indicates an age of about 15.5 Ma for early MN 5)
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: claystone
Habitat comments: "clays and marls mixed with fragments and grit of Upper Jurassic Limestone, resembling ejecta of the nearby Ries impact"
Methods
Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sites: 1
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 381 specimens
Sampling comments: "a sample of about 600 kg which has been screen washed with a minimum mesh size of 0.5 mm"
numerous gastropods are also present
numerous gastropods are also present
Metadata
Sample number: 2524
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-02-14 10:28:31
Modified: 2023-09-08 11:50:24
Abundance distribution
23 species
5 singletons
total count 381
geometric series index: 35.7
Fisher's α: 5.382
geometric series k: 0.8060
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8322
Shannon's H: 2.2206
Good's u: 0.9869
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Register
| †Amphiperatherium frequens | 5 | |
| Lantanotherium aff. sansaniense | 2 | |
| †Galerix symeonidisi | 12 | |
| †Dinosorex cf. zapfei | 1 | |
| Crocidosoricinae indet. | 6 | |
| Mygalea jaegeri | 2 | |
| Paleptesicus cf. noctuloides | 7 | |
| Paleptesicus sp. | 5 | |
| cf | ||
| †Keramidomys thaleri | 1 | |
| †Spermophilinus besana | 1 | |
| "Spermophilinus besanus" | ||
| Blackia miocaenica | 2 | |
| †Heteroxerus aff. rubricati | 24 | |
| Eumyarion sp. | 8 | |
| "weinfurteri-latior-bifidus" | ||
| †Democricetodon mutilus | 13 | |
| †Megacricetodon aff. bavaricus | 115 | |
| †Megacricetodon aff. minor | 15 | |
| Miodyromys vagus | 72 | |
| †Microdyromys complicatus | 12 | |
| †Prolagus oeningensis | 66 | |
| †Lagopsis cf. penai | 7 | |
| Viverridae indet. | 1 | |
| †Pseudaelurus quadridentatus | 1 | |
| †Cainotherium bavaricum | 3 | |