Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.5° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fluviatile Untere Serie Member (Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation), MN 5 to MN 5 (16.0 - 12.8 Ma)

• Sandy channel fill sediments indicate the lithostratigraphic position within the FIGURE 1—Digital elevation model of southern Germany (from Kuhlemann et al., 2006) and location of Pseudopus localities. 1 – Erkertshofen, 2 -Petersbuch, 3 – Niederaichbach, 4 – Sainbach, 5 – Walda, 6 –Griesbeckerzell, 7 – Kleineisenbach. 160 JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, V. 84, NO. 2, 2010 Fluviatile Untere Serie unit (fossiliferous level at 465 m above sea level). These sands overlie the youngest marls of the Older Series biostratigraphical unit (top of the marls at 463 m a.s.l. in the locality Oberbernbach 2.5 km SSE of the Sainbach outcrop) and are positioned below the Ries boulder horizon (Brock horizon), which is found in this region between 480 and 485 m a.s.l. (Doppler et al., 2002; Bo¨hme et al., 2007). The inferred stratigraphy for the Sainbach Pseudopus is therefore the early, pre-riesian part of the Middle Series, which corresponds to the unit OSM E (MN 5).(From Klembara et al. 2010)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

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 174098: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 28.10.2015

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