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
Coordinate 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"

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)

Metadata
Sample number: 4658

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Nicholas Vine

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

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

Abundance distribution
37 species
4 singletons
total count 4224
geometric series index: 50.1
Fisher's α: 5.580
geometric series k: 0.8126
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7463
Shannon's H: 1.8597
Good's u: 0.9991
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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