Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.6° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fluviatile Untere Serie Member (Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation), MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• The sandy channel fill sediments at the locality Walda 2 belong to the lithostratigraphic unit Fluviatile Untere Serie (Doppler, 1989; Doppler et al., 2005). Based on the size of the more advanced Megacricetodon aff. bavaricus and the absence of M. aff. minor, this fauna can be correlated with the faunas of Puttenhausen classic and Bubenhausen (personal information of J. Prieto; Wu, 1982; Boon, 1991), which correspond to the earlier part of unit OSM C + D (MN 5), suggesting an age of about 16.9 My (Abdul-Aziz et al., 2008 and unpublished results).(From Klembara et al. 2010)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 174100: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 28.10.2015

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