Where: Thurgau, Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 45.2° N, 10.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: MN 6 to MN 6 (13.7 - 11.1 Ma)
• MN6-7(?); Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);
•570?m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; marl
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 46274: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew | |
Plesiodimylus sp. Gaillard 1897 placental | |
Ochotonidae indet. Thomas 1897 pika | |
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
Glirudinus undosus Mayr 1979 dormouse
Bransatoglis astaracensis Baudelot 1970 dormouse | |
Keramidomys carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent | |
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 rodent
Megacricetodon cf. minor Lartet 1851 rodent | |
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel |