Gösgen - Pumpstation (Eocene of Switzerland)

Where: Canton Solothurn, Switzerland (47.4° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Costeur and M. Schneider. 2011. Catalogue of the Eocene mammal types of the Natural History Museum Basel. Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology [R. Butler/J. Benito Moreno]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182808: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Juan Benito Moreno on 25.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Macroscelidea - Amphilemuridae
Gesneropithex peyeri Hürzeler 1946 elephant shrew
G.P.127 Upper right M2, G.P.128 Left mandible with p4-m2, G.P.129 Right mandible with p4, G.P.130 Left mandible wit m1, G.P.131 Lower left m1, G.P.163 Lower left m1