Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.2° N, 8.8° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 44.5° N, 10.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)
• MN5"b"; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);
•90m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed.
•After Bollinger 1992: MN5(?). After Bollinger 1994: MN5"b" (=middle MN5).
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,
• 50 mammal teeth, 3 Celtis seeds
Primary reference: T.h. Bollinger. 1992. Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland)). Documenta naturae 75:1-296 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46228: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 09.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry | |
Mammalia | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
"Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae Viret and Zapfe 1951 shrew | |
Ruminantia indet. ruminant | |
Keramidomys carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent | |
Eumyarion weinfurteri Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
Eumyarion bifidus Fahlbusch 1964 rodent
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis Fahlbusch 1964 rodent | |
Spermophilinus aff. bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Glirudinus undosus Mayr 1979 dormouse
Microdyromys praemurinus Freudenberg 1941 dormouse | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika |