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Middle Miocene Mammals from the Czujan’s Sandpit (Mikulov, Czech Republic)

BŘEZINA, Jakub, Ángel HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN a Martin IVANOV

Základní údaje

Originální název

Middle Miocene Mammals from the Czujan’s Sandpit (Mikulov, Czech Republic)

Název česky

Středno-miocenní savci z Czujanovy pískovny (Mikulov, Česká republika)

Autoři

BŘEZINA, Jakub (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Ángel HERNÁNDEZ LUJÁN (724 Španělsko) a Martin IVANOV (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 2017

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00097367

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

ISBN

978-3-946705-03-1

ISSN

Klíčová slova česky

savci; želvy; tafonomie; paleoekologie; miocén; baden; Mikulov

Klíčová slova anglicky

Mammalia; Testudines; Taphonomy; Paleoecology; Miocene; Badenian; Mikulov

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam
Změněno: 21. 8. 2017 11:01, Mgr. Jakub Březina, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Czujan’s sandpit (Mikulov, Czech Republic) represents a unique locality of middle Miocene mammals, and further is known as the type locality of Tethytragus stehlini. Czujan’s sandpit is mentioned only occasionally in published sources, however, Neogene mammals from the Mikulov area come from several sites of different stratigraphical age. Therefore it is important to distinguish this specific locality from other fossil sites of Mikulov. The studied material which is housed in the Moravian Museum in Brno, the Regional Museum of Mikulov, Masaryk University and Vienna University shows that this locality is relatively rich in terrestrial vertebrates. Over the approximately 40 years (1936-1974) of its existence, this locality provided at least 53 vertebrate individuals where proboscideans are the most abundant taxa. The fossil faunal list includes in total 13 taxa: Proboscidea: Zygolophodon turicensis, Gomphotherium angustidens, Prodeinotherium bavaricum; Rhinocerotidae: Brachypotherium brachypus, Hoploaceratherium sp.; Equidae: Anchitherium sp.; Chalicotheriidae: Anisodon grande; Suidae: Conohyus simorrensis, Cervidae: Heteroprox larteti, Bovidae: Tethytragus stehlini; Palaeomerycidae indet., Carnivora: Amphicyon cf. major and Testudines: Testudo kalkburgensis. This fossil assemblage stratigraphically corresponds to the middle-late Badenian (Astaracian). Taphonomical features of studied material from fluvial sands and gravels suggest that most of fossil remains are individuals what died in the immediate vicinity of the sedimentation area. One of the pieces of evidence that supports this is that most of the skeletal remains were recovered in anatomical position (e.g., whole skeletons and forelimbs or hindlimbs). By the high biodiversity, we can place this small sandpit as the one of the richest middle Miocene terrestrial fossil sites of Central Europe.