Erlistr. 88, Buchberg, Schaffhausen: MN 5, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium indet. Burmeister 1837
Mammalia
Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839
Mammalia - Cainotheriidae
Cainotherium sp. Bravard 1828
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Galerix symeonidisi Doukas 1986
it is written: Galerix sp. symeonidisi
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Lagopsis penai
Prolagus oeningensis (König 1825)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon ? mutilus (Fahlbusch 1964)
Bollinger 1994
Megacricetodon bavaricus (Fahlbusch 1964)
Eumyarion bifidus (Fahlbusch 1964)
    = ? Eumyarion bifidus Fahlbusch 1964
Bollinger 1994
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Pseudodryomys ibericus de Bruijn 1966
Miodyromys hamadryas Forsyth Major 1899
ssp.
Miodyromys cf. aegercii Baudelot 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
? Heteroxerus sp. Stehlin and Schaub 1951
? Palaeosciurus sp. Pomel 1853
Spermophilinus aff. bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Trogontherium minutum
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Ligerimys sp. Schaub 1951
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Schaffhausen County:Buchberg
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 8.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 7.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:502 meters
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:MN 5
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MN5"a"; xx m (profile meter) below the Hüllistein marker bed.
After Bollinger 1992: MN4?. After Bollinger 1994: MN5"a" (=lower MN5).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",coarse sandstone
Environment:coarse channel fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.200 Maximum sieve size:1.250
Collection size:280 specimens
Rock censused:100 kg
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46267
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-10 00:18:00 Last modified:2007-03-02 22:54:17
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-10 00:18:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12335. 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]

Secondary references:

117125% 6560T.h. Bollinger. 1994. Die Obere Süßwassermolasse in Bayern und der Ostschweiz: bio- und lithostratigraphische Korrelationen (Upper Freshwater molasse in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland: bio- and lithostratigraphic correlations). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 34:109-144 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]