Terrestrial artiodactyl remains from the whale horizon at Groß Pampau (ancient North Sea Basin, North Germany; Serravallian-Tortonian boundary, Middle-Late Miocene)
| Stránky | 424–434 |
|---|---|
| DOI | 10.37520/fi.2024.030 |
| Klíčová slova | Neogene, Schleswig-Holstein, Cervidae, mandible, lower molars, phalanx |
| Typ článku | Recenzovaný článek |
| Citace | RÖSSNER, Gertrud E. a HAMPE, Oliver. Terrestrial artiodactyl remains from the whale horizon at Groß Pampau (ancient North Sea Basin, North Germany; Serravallian-Tortonian boundary, Middle-Late Miocene). Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis. Praha: Národní muzeum, 2024, 80(2), 424–434. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2024.030. ISSN 2533-4050 (tisk), 2533-4069 (online). Dostupné také z: https://publikace.nm.cz/periodicke-publikace/fossil-imprint-acta-musei-nationalis-pragae-series-b-historia-naturalis/80-2/terrestrial-artiodactyl-remains-from-the-whale-horizon-at-gro-pampau-ancient-north-sea-basin-north-germany-serravallian-tortonian-boundary-middle-late-miocene |
The mica-clay fossil site Groß Pampau is famous for its later Miocene marine mammal record, which represents the fauna of the then-southern North Sea Basin. Since the 1980s, fossils have been collected and later systematically excavated. For a long time, only marine taxa were identified. In 2017, two nicely preserved remains of terrestrial artiodactyls were discovered as the so far only terrestrial input and northernmost European terrestrial mammal record of the pre-Quaternary Cenozoic. Here, we figure, describe, and compare morphology and dimensions of both specimens. We identified them as fragment of a hemimandible with two lower molars and a distal phalanx of a cervid, but were unable to assign them to a genus or species, due to limited contemporaneous comparative material.
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