Where: Bayern, Germany (48.4° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• MN5"c"; mittlere Serie der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (middle series of Upper Freshwater Molasse); Below "Brockhorizont", a layer generated by the Ries-impact. After Heissig 1989: MN 6. After Bollinger 1994 MN5"c" (=upper MN5).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Most fossils are stored in 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 45597: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.11.2004

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