Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.4° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: OSM F mammal zone, Fluviatile Untere Serie Member (Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Brock horizon of the Fluviatile Untere Serie, Middle part of the Upper Freshwater Molasse (OSM), Early Badenian (Langhian).

•"Fossil localities of the Brock horizon lacking fossils of the large-sized lineage of Megacricetodon Fahlbusch, 1964 are placed at the beginning of [the regional] unit OSM F (Heissig 1989, 1997; Böhme et al. 2001; Abdul Aziz et al. 2008). [...] According to the new palaeomagnetic and radiometric dating of the Ries impact event (Abdul Aziz et al. 2008), Griesbeckerzell 1a probably is approximately 14.77 Ma (14.88 ± 0.11 Ma for the Ries impact and chron C5ADr for sediments containing the Brock horizon) in age [...]" (Ivanov & Böhme, 2011).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; poorly lithified, calcareous breccia and poorly lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: M. Ivanov and M. Böhme. 2011. Snakes from Griesbeckerzell (Langhian, Early Badenian), North Alpine Foreland Basin (Germany), with comments on the evolution of snake faunas in Central Europe during the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Geodiversitas 33(3):411-449 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134954: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 19.10.2012, edited by Terri Cleary

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