The carnivoran community from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany)

• DOI: 10.1007/s12542-009-0008-6
• Publication Date: 2009-02-13T11:16:41Z
• Authors: Doris Nagel; Clara Stefen; Michael Morlo
• Keywords: Theria

From the Bavarian Early/Middle Miocene (MN5) site Sandelzhausen, nine species of carnivoran mammals are identified including the hemicyonine ursid Hemicyon stehlini, the amphicyonids Amphicyon cf. major and Pseudarctos bavaricus, the mustelids Ischyrictis zibethoides and Martes cf. munki, the mephitid Proputorius pusillus, the viverrid Leptoplesictis cf. aurelianensis, the felid Pseudaelurus romieviensis, and finally the recently described barbourofelid Prosansanosmilus eggeri. With these taxa present, Sandelzhausen shows a carnivoran community typical, though deprived, for the Lower to Middle Miocene of Europe, but different from roughly contemporary Mediterranean faunas such as those from Candir or Pasalar in Turkey.