Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.0° N, 12.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grimmelfinger Schichten Member (Brackwater Molasse Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• basal Grimmelfingen beds ("Grimmelfinger Graupensande"), late Early Miocene, Middle Orleanian (Sach & Heizmann, 2001)

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•Pippèrr et al. 2007: Biostratigraphical studies based on otoliths and small mammals suggest that the Upper Brackish Molasse is Late Ottnangian in age (e.g. ZIEGLER & FAHLBUSCH 1986; REICHENBACHER et al. 2004). Adding support to this age estimate is the positive correlation of the Upper Brackish Molasse with the sediments in Switzerland and the Rzehakia Beds of the Central Paratethys (SENES 1973; REICHENBACHER et al. 1998).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, fine-grained, coarse, sandy gravel and poorly lithified, black, brown, calcareous, carbonaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: sieve

• the sand pit was active in the 1970s and 1980s; fossil collecting must have taken place in this period

•the fossiliferous layer is not accessible anymore

•additional institution housing material from Egg.-Mh. 3: Museum des Mineralien- u. Fossilien-Vereins Gerstetten (MFVG)

Primary reference: G. Pilleri. 1986. The Cetacea of the Western Paratethys 1-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49102: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.04.2005

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