Möhren 20 (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (48.9° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 21 mammal zone, MP 21 (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

• "fissure fillings"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: M. Vianey-Liaud and B. Schmid. 2009. Diversité, datation et paléoenvironnement de la faune de mammifères oligocène de Cavalé (Quercy, SO France) : contribution de l’analyse morphométrique des Theridomyinae (Mammalia, Rodentia). Geodiversitas 31(4):909-941 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183517: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Protapirus priscus2 Filhol 1874 tapir
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
"Myxomygale aff. minor" = Percymygale minor5, "Myxomygale vauclusensis" = Percymygale vauclusensis5
"Myxomygale aff. minor" = Percymygale minor5 Ziegler 1990 mole
BSP 1975 XXII 777
"Myxomygale vauclusensis" = Percymygale vauclusensis5 Crochet 1995 mole
BSP 1975 XXII 771-781
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
Euronyctia franconica4 Ziegler 2007 placental
BSP 1975 XXII 754-759
Cryptotopos communis4 Ziegler 2007 placental
BSP 1875 XXII 725-753
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet.1 Winge 1887 rodent
Eomys sp.1 Schlosser 1884 rodent
Eomys antiquus1 Aymard 1853 rodent
 Rodentia - Aplodontidae
"Plesispermophilus atavus n. sp." = Lophallomys atavus3
"Plesispermophilus atavus n. sp." = Lophallomys atavus3 Schmidt-Kittler and Vianey-Liaud 1979 mountain beaver
BSP MÖ 20 1975-XXII-13 - type