Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.7° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 8.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: OSM C mammal zone, Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation (Molasse Group), MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• The fossils come from a 15 to 50 cm thick bed of marl and clay wich is overlain by 2 m of gastropod limestones which, in turn, are overlain by ejecta of the Ries impact. Lithological and biostratigraphical data point to a stratigraphic position within the Upper Freshwater Molasse at the Lower/Middle Miocene boundary (middle part of MN5).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified marl and unlithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by E. P. J. Heizmann in 1980; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: sieve,

• The fossils are from an artificial outcrop (a 10 m deep trench) that existed in 1980 at the construction site of the Ulm-Würzburg autobahn.

Primary reference: R. Böttcher, E. P. J. Heizmann, M. W. Rasser and R. Ziegler. 2009. Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of a Middle Miocene (Karpathian, MN 5) fauna from the northern margin of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Oggenhausen 2, SW' Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 254(1/2):237-260 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48325: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 16.03.2005, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Matthew Clapham

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