Where: Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 7.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)
• MN5"b"; 16.3 M Years; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);
•5m (on another place is written: 0m)(profile meter) below the Hüllistein marker bed.
•After Bollinger 1992: MN5. After Bollinger 1994: MN5"b" (=middle MN5).
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,
• It is chosen as an "Assemblage-Zone" and is stored in the Paläontological Insitute and Museum Zürich.
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 46285: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran | |
Hyotherium sp. von Meyer 1834 pig | |
Ruminantia indet. ruminant | |
Dinosorex cf. sansaniensis Lartet 1851 shrew | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
Plesiodimylus helveticus n. sp.
Plesiodimylus helveticus n. sp. Bollinger 1992 placental | |
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Neocometes similis Fahlbusch 1966 mouse | |
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis, Democricetodon mutilus, Megacricetodon germanicus, Eumyarion bifidus
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Democricetodon mutilus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Eumyarion bifidus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse | |
Bransatoglis cadeoti Bulot 1978 dormouse
Microdyromys cf. miocaenicus dormouse
Microdyromys praemurinus Freudenberg 1941 dormouse | |
? Miopetaurista sp. Kretzoi 1962 squirrel
Spermophilinus aff. bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Angiospermae | |
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry |