Also known as Hammerschmiede clay pit

Where: Bavaria, Germany (47.9° N, 10.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 46.3° N, 11.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 8 mammal zone, Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• early late Miocene, Tortonian, MN 8, regional stratigraphic levels HAM 5 (11.62 Ma) and HAM 4 (11.44 Ma) [37].

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Mayr and V. Fahlbusch. 1975. Eine unterpliozäne Kleinsäugerfauna aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Paläontologie und historische Geologie 15:91-111 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34256: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Meg Hall on 24.08.2003, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Evangelos Vlachos and Mark Uhen

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