Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.6° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 10.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation (North Alpine Foreland Basin Group), MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• The overbank deposits lithostratigraphically belong to the lower part of the Nördlicher Vollschotter unit (Abdul-Aziz et al., 2008, fig. 2). The small mammal fauna contains a typical sized Megacricetodon bavaricus and can thus be correlated biostratigraphically with the fauna of Langenmoosen and Bellenberg (Scho¨ tz, 1993), which correspond to the faunal unit OSM B (MN 5). Correlation with biomagnetostratigraphically dated sections suggest an age of about 17.1 My (Abdul-Aziz et al., 2008) (From Klembara et al. 2010)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Klembara, M. Böhme, and M. Rummel. 2010. Revision of the anguine lizard Pseudopus laurillardi (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Miocene of Europe, with comments on paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology 84(2):159-196 [R. Butler/J. Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174097: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 28.10.2015, edited by David Nicholson

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