Where: Bayern, Germany (48.5° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 9.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Mittlere Serie der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (Middle series of Upper freshwater Molasse); 4 m below "Brockhorizont", a layer generated by the Ries-impact. After Heissig 1989: MN 6
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified sandstone and unlithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Most fossils are stored in the Bayerische Staatssammlung
Primary reference: K. Heissig. 1989. Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria). Geologica Bavarica 94:239-257 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45594: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.11.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Mammalia | |
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle | |
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847 crocodilian |