Edelbeuren-Mauerkopf
Basic information
Sample name: Edelbeuren-Mauerkopf

Reference: V. J. Sach. 1999. Litho- und biostratigraphische Untersuchungen in der Oberen Süsswassermolasse des Landkreises Biberach a. d. Riss (Oberschwaben). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B, Geologie und Paläontologie 276:1-167 [ER 4405]
Geography
Country: Germany

State: Baden-Württemberg

Coordinate: 48.09° N, 10.03° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Middle Miocene

Zone: MN5

Geography comments: a sand quarry about 750 m E of the center of Edelbeuren
"from pre-Ries sediments" (meaning older than the Nördlinger Ries impact)
from "the upper part" of MN5 and "latest Orleanian" (see Fig. 34)

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Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: from two approximately 1.0 m thick layers in an apparent channel cut consisting of muscovite-rich fine sand and small sandstone concretions with clay and marl lenses

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Excluded forms: birds, lizards, snakes, turtles, other reptiles, frogs

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 192 specimens

Museum: Staatlichen Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 150

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: most of the large material was surface collected, but 150 kg was sieved and slurried
plants, snails, freshwater bivalves, ostracods, the crab Potamon, fishes, frogs, a salamander, snakes, lizards, turtles, Diplocynodon, and birds are also present

Metadata
Sample no: 4681

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2025-08-28 10:38:05

Modified: 2025-08-28 10:38:05

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
27 species
10 singletons
total count 192
geometric series index: 55.6
Fisher's α: 8.561
geometric series k: 0.8669
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8768
Shannon's H: 2.5285
Good's u: 0.9481
Register
†Galerix aff. symeonidisi 6
Erinaceinae indet.1
Mioechinus or Amphechinus
Miosorex sp. 1
Soricidae indet.1
possibly the same as the preceding
Plesiodimylus sp. 1
Talpidae indet.3
Sciuridae indet.1
Keramidomys sp. 2
carpathicus or thaleri
†Microdyromys cf. miocaenicus 1
†Paraglirulus werenfelsi 3
†Miodyromys aegercii 8
plus 3 Gliridae indet.
†Megacricetodon minor 40
†Megacricetodon lappi 11
†Democricetodon mutilus 2
†Eumyarion cf. medius 11
†Cricetodon aff. meini 4
plus 1 Cricetodon sp.
†Prolagus oeningensis 41
†Trocharion albanense 3
†Proputorius aff. sansaniensis 1
†Semigenetta sansaniensis 1
Carnivora indet.1
Viverridae or Mustelidae: plus 2 Carnivora indet.
Chalicotheriidae indet.1
Rhinocerotidae indet.9
Suidae indet.3
†Cainotherium cf. huerzeleri 2
†Procervulus cf. dichotomus (deer)8
†Dorcatherium guntianum 26