Where: Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (47.3° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

• MN3?; "Fauna of Wattwil seems to be relatively young, despite the fact that it is in a lithostratigraphic low position! The distance to Goldingen is about 15 km to the East and therefore the correlation is difficult. Probably tectonic movement took place!"

•According to the lithostratigraphic position it is 21? M Years old, according to the fauna about 18 M Years.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• collected by Dr. B. Engesser, Basel

Primary reference: T.h. Bollinger. 1992. Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland)). Documenta naturae 75:1-296 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46281: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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