Gunzenheim (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.8° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. de Bonis. 2015. Revival of a species of the rare European Oligocene amphicyonid Goupilictis Ginsburg, 1969 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Amphicyonidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e969401:1-5 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183664: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 12.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

• The material, housed in the Natural History Museum of Munich, was destroyed in a bombing of the city during the Second World War
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon leptorhynchus2 Laizer and Parieu 1838 creodont
 Carnivora -
aff. Stenogale sp. Schlosser 1888 carnivoran
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae "indet. 1" Haeckel 1886 bear-dog
Amphicyonidae "indet. 2" Haeckel 1886 bear-dog
"Amphicyon minor n. sp." = Goupilictis minor1 Dehm 1935 bear-dog
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
Plesictis aff. robustus Filhol 1915 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Ursidae
"Cephalogale aff. gracile" = Phoberogale gracile, Pachycynodon obtusus
"Cephalogale aff. gracile" = Phoberogale gracile Pomel 1847 bear
Pachycynodon obtusus Dehm 1935 bear