Bürgistobel B, Stäfa, Zürich (Miocene of Switzerland)

Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 44.5° N, 10.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• MN5?; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•115m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

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 46231: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 09.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
Microdyromys praemurinus Freudenberg 1941 dormouse
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus aff. bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel