Where: Bayern, Germany (48.4° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 9.7° 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);Above the "Brockhorizont", a layer generated by the Ries-impact; Gallenbach 2c is 1-2 m above the collection Gallenbach 2b

•the Ries ejecta are 14.88 +/- 0.11 Ma old (Aziz et al. 2007), implying a Langhian age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; marl and unlithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• 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 45604: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.11.2004

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