Echinoids from the Belpberg Beds (Obere Meeresmolasse, Middle Burdigalian) in the area of Bern (Switzerland)

Kroh, Andreas; Menkveld-Gfeller, Ursula

doi:10.1007/s00015-006-1185-x

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“…100 m deep) based on the rich chondrichthyan composition ( Jost, Kempf & Kälin, 2016 ). Further, the chondrichthyan composition of the Staffelbach-Grobsandstein Bed is extremely similar to that of the Rhone Valley ( Jost, Kempf & Kälin, 2016 ), a pattern also reported for the mollusc and echinoid faunas, which place Switzerland in a transitional zone between the Central Paratethys faunas (eastwards) and the Rhone Basin and the Mediterranean faunas(westwards) for the Early Burdigalian ( Kroh & Menkveld-Gfeller, 2006 ).…”

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First records of extinct kentriodontid and squalodelphinid dolphins from the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian age) of Switzerland and a reappraisal of the Swiss cetacean fauna

Aguirre-Fernández

Jost²,

Hilfiker

2022

PeerJ

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The Swiss Upper Marine Molasse (OMM) documents a transgression event dated to around 21 to 17 million years in which dolphin and other vertebrate remains have been reported. We revised the whole cetacean (whales and dolphins) OMM assemblage available in main collections, focusing on the identification and interpretation of periotics (bone that contains the inner ear). Periotics are rare, but they provide the richest taxonomic information in the sample and hint to environmental associations. Micro-computerized tomography allowed the reconstruction of bony labyrinths for comparisons and environmental interpretations. Three families are represented by periotics: Kentriodontidae, Squalodelphinidae and Physeteridae. The cetacean taxonomic composition of the Swiss OMM reinforces biogeographical patterns reported for the Mediterranean and Paratethys during the Burdigalian at a regional scale and the Calvert cetacean fauna of the northwest Atlantic at oceanic scale.

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First records of extinct kentriodontid and squalodelphinid dolphins from the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian age) of Switzerland and a reappraisal of the Swiss cetacean fauna

Aguirre-Fernández

Jost²,

Hilfiker

2022

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“…Phillipe 1998; Néraudeau et al. 2001; Nebelsick & Kroh 2002; Kroh & Nebelsick 2003; Kroh 2005, 2007; Kroh & Menkveld‐Gfeller 2006). Nevertheless, studies concerning their taphonomy (Seilacher 1979; Nebelsick 1999; Nebelsick & Kroh 2002; Kroh & Nebelsick 2010) have revealed that their abundance in the fossil record is the consequence of a range of unique features of clypeasteroids that promote their preservation and also the formation of mass accumulations.…”

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A taphonomic approach to the genetic interpretation of clypeasteroid accumulations from the Miocene of Tarragona, NE Spain

Belaústegui

Nebelsick

Gibert

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Martinell, J. 2012: A taphonomic approach to the genetic interpretation of clypeasteroid accumulations from the Miocene of Tarragona, NE Spain. Lethaia, Vol. 45, Clypeasteroid accumulations are common in Cenozoic shallow marine sediments, particularly in the Neogene, as they are also in analogue modern environments. In this article, four clypeasteroid accumulations from Miocene (Serravallian) shallow marine carbonates of the El Camp de Tarragona Basin (NE Spain) are studied. Two of them are dominated by flat-shaped Parascutella, whereas the other two consist exclusively of bellshaped Clypeaster. The combination of the taphonomic analysis of the tests, the palaeoecological and taphonomic information provided by the associated fossils, and the stratigraphical and sedimentological context of each one of these beds allows interpreting them as autochthonous ⁄ parautochthonous accumulations resulting from in situ reworking in moderate energy settings, except for one that constitutes a true sand dollar coquina deposited by a storm event. This contribution explores the potential of thorough taphonomic analysis of marine invertebrate skeletal concentrations and substantiates the importance of clypeasteroid echinoids as producers of shell beds in the Neogene. h

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Miocene echinoids from the Sadat area, south Gebel Ataqa, NW Gulf of Suez, Egypt: systematics, palaeobiogeography

Elattaar

2017

Arab J Geosci

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Echinoids from the Belpberg Beds (Obere Meeresmolasse, Middle Burdigalian) in the area of Bern (Switzerland)

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

First records of extinct kentriodontid and squalodelphinid dolphins from the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian age) of Switzerland and a reappraisal of the Swiss cetacean fauna

First records of extinct kentriodontid and squalodelphinid dolphins from the Upper Marine Molasse (Burdigalian age) of Switzerland and a reappraisal of the Swiss cetacean fauna

A taphonomic approach to the genetic interpretation of clypeasteroid accumulations from the Miocene of Tarragona, NE Spain

Miocene echinoids from the Sadat area, south Gebel Ataqa, NW Gulf of Suez, Egypt: systematics, palaeobiogeography

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