Langnauer Berg 800m (La.B.20), Langnau, Zürich (Miocene to of Switzerland)

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

• coarse channel fill and lacustrine deposits

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Dinosorex sp. Engesser 1972 shrew
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Megacricetodon indet. Fahlbusch 1964 rodent
Megacricetodon cf. minor Lartet 1851 rodent
Eumyarion cf. latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
Democricetodon brevis Schaub 1925 rodent
 Rodentia - Gliridae
? Microdyromys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
it is written: Microdyromys/Paraglirulus indet.
Miodyromys cf. aegercii Baudelot 1972 dormouse
 Charales - Feistiellaceae
Nitellopsis sp. Hy 1889
(Tectochara), meriani-Gruppe