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

• Paleocoordinates: 45.1° N, 12.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• MN 4b

•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).

Environment/lithology: paralic; muddy marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by SMNS and Department of Paleontology and Historical Geology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 1977; reposited in the BSP, SMNS

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

• Fossils were almost exclusively obtained from surface collecting.

Primary reference: V. J. Sach and E. P. J. Heizmann. 2001. Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 310:1-95 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70359: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.03.2007, edited by David Nicholson

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