West shore of Lake Überlingen (Miocene of Germany)

Also known as Uberlingen, Bodman

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.8° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Heidenlocherschichten, Obere Meeresmolasse

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Rossmann, D. E. Berg, and S. Salisbury. 1999. Studies on Cenozoic crocodiles: 3. Gavialosuchus cf. gaudensis (Eusuchia: Tomistomidae) from the Lower Miocene of south Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1999(6):321-330 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144788: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Tomistominae indet. crocodilian
HLMD V-4001 (maxilla); originally described as Diplocynodon plenidens by Weitzel (1938)