Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.5° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirchberg beds Member (Brackwater Molasse Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• lithostratigraphy is according to Böttcher (1987, Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk. B 131)

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•Pippèrr et al. 2007: Biostratigraphical studies based on otoliths and small mammals suggest that the Upper Brackish Molasse is Late Ottnangian in age (e.g. ZIEGLER & FAHLBUSCH 1986; REICHENBACHER et al. 2004). Adding support to this age estimate is the positive correlation of the Upper Brackish Molasse with the sediments in Switzerland and the Rzehakia Beds of the Central Paratethys (SENES 1973; REICHENBACHER et al. 1998).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; pebbly, gray, yellow, sandy marl and unlithified, pyritic, black, gray, blue mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• Several thousands of vertebrate remains (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) have been recovered from the three fossiliferous beds. Mammals are mainly represented by large animals (individual teeth and bones, whole skulls and mandibles as well as larger portions of the skeleton, or, in case of Deinotherium, whole skeletons). Numerous remains of micromammals have been obtained by screenwashing of bulk samples (a total of 13,500 kg). Langenau 1 produced a total of:

•3 complete and partial skeletons

•about 90 skulls and jaw fragments

•160 individual teeth of large mammals

•1800 bone remains of large mammals

•1000 teeth and bone remains of small mammals

Collected by SMNS in 1976; reposited in the BSP, SMNS

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• The fossils have been recovered during a three-month rescue excavation in the summer of 1976.

Primary reference: E.P.J. Heizmann, L. Ginsburg, and C. Bulot. 1980. Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, ein neuer machairodontider Felide aus dem Miocän Deutschlands und Frankreichs. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Ser. B. 58:1-27 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69098: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 18.02.2007, edited by Mark Uhen, Terri Cleary and David Nicholson

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