Where: Switzerland (47.2° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 5.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Obere Bunte Mergel Formation, MN 1 (23.0 - 22.4 Ma)
• Obere Bunte Mergel from the Aquitanian USM
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. Scherler, D. Becker, and J.-P. Berger. 2011. Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) of the Swiss Molasse Basin during the Oligocene–Miocene transition. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):479-496 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184456: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.03.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Diaceratherium sp. Dietrich 1931 rhinoceros
Pleuroceros pleuroceros Duvernoy 1853 rhinoceros | |
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Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig | |
Elomeryx borbonicus Geais 1934 anthracothere |