Puttenhausen 1 (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.6° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation (Molasse Group), MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• MN5"b"; Obere Süßwasser-Molasse (Upper Freshwater Molasse); Wu: MN 5/6: Upper Orleanian-Lower Astaracian.

•After Bollinger 1994: MN5"b" (=middle MN5).

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Total collection size entry (1125 specimens) has been removed after individual specimen numbers have been entered in the occurence list. (TL)

Primary reference: W. Wu. 1982. Die Cricetiden (Mammalia, Rodentia) aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse von Puttenhausen (Niederbayern); (The Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Puttenhausen, Bavaria). Zitteliana 9:37-80 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49418: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 15.04.2005, edited by Juliette Richter, Torsten Liebrecht and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton inexpectatum3 Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
? Anomalomys minutus2 Bollinger 1992 rodent
1 tooth
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon mutilus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
229 teeth
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
318 teeth
Megacricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
6 teeth
Megacricetodon germanicus2 mouse
108 teeth
? Megacricetodon minor2 Lartet 1851 mouse
Eumyarion weinfurteri2 Schaub and Zapfe 1953 mouse
121 teeth
Eumyarion bifidus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
341 teeth
 Rodentia -
Neocometes similis2 Fahlbusch 1966 mouse
1 tooth
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Proscapanus sansaniensis4 Lartet 1851 mole
Scaptonyx cf. edwardsi4 Gaillard 1899 Long-tailed mole
Desmanodon antiquus4 Ziegler 1985 mole
Reptilia
 Squamata - Cordylidae
Bavaricordylus molassicus n. sp.1 Böhme 2010 spinytail lizard
anterior part of right dentary with 15 tooth positions (= holotype, BSPG 2008 XXIV 1) + posterior part of a right dentary with last 7 tooth positions (BSPG 2008 XXIV 2)