Günzburg locality (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.5° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grimmelfingen Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• deposition of the Graupensand River and consists of fine- to coarse-grained sands that are predominantly carbonatefree

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. B. Salvador, M. Pipperr, B. Reichenbacher and M. W. Rasser. 2016. Early Miocene continental gastropods from new localities of the Molasse Basin in southern Germany. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 90:469-491 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182601: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Stagnicola armaniacensis Noulet 1852 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Theodoxus cyrtocelis Krauss 1852 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Nematurella bavarica Sandberger 1875 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Bithyniidae
Bithynia glabra Zieten 1830 snail
 Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis impressa Krauss 1852 snail