Where: Aargau, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 6.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Freshwater Molasse Group, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• "SP 640 and 642 are c. 15.7–15.8 m.y. old (early Middle Miocene)"
Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium sandstone and paleosol/pedogenic, gray, green siltstone
•(suggested by the heliophilic taxa).
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Jost, D. Kälin, S. Börner, D. Vasilyan, D. Lawver and B. Reichenbacher. 2015. Vertebrate microfossils from the Upper Freshwater Molasse in the Swiss Molasse Basin: Implications for the evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin during the Miocene Climate Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 426:22-33 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 201976: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 13.06.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis, Megacricetodon bavaricus
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Megacricetodon bavaricus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse | |
Miodyromys aff. aegercii Baudelot 1972 dormouse
Microdyromys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse | |
"Lipotyphla indet." = Eulipotyphla
"Lipotyphla indet." = Eulipotyphla placental | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew | |
Reptilia | |
Testudoolithidae indet. Hirsch 1996 turtle | |
Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758 snake | |
Bavaricordylus sp. Kosma 2004 spinytail lizard | |
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825 squamates | |
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825 gecko | |
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Channa sp. Scopoli 1770 snakehead | |
Leuciscinae indet. Howes 1991 carp-like fish | |
Bivalvia | |
Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Limax sp. Linnaeus 1758 slug | |
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