Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 45.1° N, 10.2° 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);
•455?m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,
• 40 mammal teeth
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 46275: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dinosorex sp. Engesser 1972 shrew | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Megacricetodon indet. Fahlbusch 1964 rodent
Megacricetodon cf. minor Lartet 1851 rodent
Eumyarion cf. latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
Democricetodon brevis Schaub 1925 rodent | |
Miodyromys cf. aegercii Baudelot 1972 dormouse | |
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