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

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