Where: Bayern, Germany (48.8° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)
• Upper Fresh-water Molasse, Lower Tortonian, Upper Helvetian is also possible.
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•This collection is probably at the Burdigalian/Langhian boundary. "Tortonian" was used in a different context in the eastern Paratethys.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shelly/skeletal lignite and sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: V. Fahlbusch. 1964. Die Cricetiden (Mamm.) der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns (Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Bavaria). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse; Abhandlungen, neue Folge 118:1-136 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48320: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 16.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Democricetodon aff. schaubi, "Cotimus aff. medius" = Leidymys, "Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius
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Amphibia | |
Albanerpeton inexpectatum Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod |