Sandelzhausen
Basic information
Sample name: Sandelzhausen

Reference: M. Böhme. 2010. Ectothermic vertebrates (Actinopterygii, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria) and their implications for environment reconstruction and palaeoclimate. Paläontol Z 84:3-41 [ER 4268]
Geography
Country: Germany

State: Bavaria

Coordinate: 48.628° N, 11.796° E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Scale: basin

Time interval: Early Miocene

Max Ma: 16.47

Min Ma: 16.27

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: "The Sandelzhausen locality (Fig. 1) is situated in the eastern part of the town of Mainburg, 70 km northeast of Munich and 27 km west of Landshut, in Lower Bavaria"
"Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sandelzhausen profile reveal one inverse to normal magnetic reversal, which cannot unambiguously be correlated to the Global
Polarity Timescale (Abdul-Aziz et al. 2008). The palaeomagnetic results of other sections in the Landshut–Mainburg area, together with biostratigraphic information, makes a correlation to the magnetic reversals C5Cn.2r/2n
or C5Cn.1r/1n most reliable (Abdul-Aziz et al. 2008), placing Sandelzhausen at around 16.47 or 16.27 Ma, in
the latest Early Miocene, near the Early/Middle"

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Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "a fine-clastic intercalation near the top of the regionally widespread sands and gravels of the No¨rdlicher Vollschotter"
"Fine to medium-sized gravels within a sandy to marly matrix. Pedogenic carbonate nodules and carbonatic cementations are very frequent"

Methods
Life forms: fishes, salamanders, frogs, other reptiles, lizards

Sample size: 4224 specimens

Museum: Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (BSPG)

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Metadata
Sample no: 4658

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: Nicholas Vine

Created: 2025-02-06 04:48:54

Modified: 2025-02-06 04:48:54

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
37 species
4 singletons
total count 4224
geometric series index: 50.1
Fisher's α: 5.58
geometric series k: 0.8126
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7463
Shannon's H: 1.8597
Good's u: 0.9991
Register
Palaeocarassius sp. A 1758
Palaeoleuciscus sp. A 33
†Channa elliptica 145
Gobius sp. 3
†Albanerpeton inexpectatum 8
†Salamandra sansaniensis 95
Chelotriton sp. 43
Triturus cf. vulgaris 285
Triturus cf. marmoratus 201
†Latonia gigantea 54
†Pelobates fahlbuschi 1079
Eopelobates sp. 10
Bufo cf. viridis 11
Bufo sp. 1
Pelophylax sp. 28
Ranidae indet.11
Diplocynodon styriacus 331
Chamaeleo aff. caroliquarti 5
Chamaeleo bavaricus 4
Lacerta "s.l. sp. 1"1
Lacerta "s.l. sp. 2"9
Lacerta "s.l. sp. 3"21
Edlartetia sansaniensis 1
Lacertidae cf. "Miolacerta tenuis"2
Tropidophorus bavaricus 3
Scincidae indet. 12
Scincidae indet. 22
Bavaricordylus molassicus 1
Bavaricordylus cf. molassicus 6
Cordylidae indet.2
Scincomorpha indet.6
Pseudopus laurillardi 18
Ophisaurus sp. 30
Ophisaurus sp. I sensu 8
Anguidae cf. "Ophisaurus cf. spinari"3
Anguidae indet.2
Palaeoblanus sp. 2