Hochheim (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Hessen, Germany (50.0° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 30 mammal zone, MP 30 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• "Oligocene superieure, MP30"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. L. Augé. 2005. Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe. Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 192:1-369 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179239: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.06.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus moguntinus n. sp. Boettger 1875 legless lizard
SM (Senckenburg Museum) unknown no. (holotype), osteoderms. Additional specimens mentioned in Estes 1983.
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon collatum Schaub 1925 mouse