Fischbach 600m, Helsighausen, layer H2, Thurgau: MN 7 + 8, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Artiodactyla
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
Mammalia - Plesiosoricidae
Plesiosorex sp. Pomel 1848
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
Dinosorex cf. pachygnathus Engesser 1972
Mammalia - Dimylidae
Plesiodimylus chantrei Gaillard 1899
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Galerix cf. socialis von Meyer 1865
Amphechinus sp. Aymard 1850
Mammalia - Lagomorpha
Eurolagus sp. Lopez Martinez 1977
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus oeningensis (König 1825)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Blackia miocaenica Mein 1970
Albanensia cf. albanensis (Major 1893)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber minutus
Steneofiber cf. jaegeri
Mammalia - Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
? Anomalomys sp. Gaillard 1900
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
? Glirulus cf. conjunctus Mayr 1979
Myoglis meini de Bruijn 1966
Miodyromys aegercii Baudelot 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion cf. latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953
Megacricetodon minor Lartet 1851
Megacricetodon gregarius (Schaub 1925)
Democricetodon cf. affinis Schaub 1925
Democricetodon cf. brevis (Schaub 1925)
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Thurgau County:Helsighausen
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 9.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.3° North, 8.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:610 meters
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
Key time interval:MN 7 + 8
Age range of interval:12.80000 - 11.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:H Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: MN7, about 13.5 Mill. years
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Lime-sandy shellphragments of molluscs, 5 cm thick sediment layer
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Except the very big fossils, all the teeth has been collected by sieving of 300 kg.
Metadata
Database number:53571
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:46277
Created:2005-09-12 04:43:42 Last modified:2007-03-02 22:57:52
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-12 04:43:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14472. T. Bollinger. 1994. Geologie und Paläontologie der Glimmersandgrube Helsighausen (Kt. Thurgau); Geology and paleontology of the mica-rich sand pit of Helsighausen (Canton Thurgau). Mitteilungen der thurgauischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 52:63-79 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]

Secondary references:

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]