Where: Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (47.4° N, 9.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.2° N, 10.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 7 + 8 (12.8 - 11.1 Ma)

• Bollinger 1994: MN8; Bollinger 1992: MN7

•13.3 M Years; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•600m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed.

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; carbonaceous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• It is chosen as an "Assemblage-Zone" and is stored in the Paläontological Insitute and Museum Zürich.

•1000 mammal teeth, 40 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 46288: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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