Tušimice (Miocene of Czech Republic)

Also known as Tusimice; Josef-Oswald mine

Where: Czech Republic (50.4° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN3 mammal zone, Holešice Member (Most Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• early Miocene MN3 Zone of the European Neogene Mammal biochronological system

•middle coal seam

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; coal

• fluvio-lacustrine depositional system surrounded by bottomland swamp forest environments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: À H. Luján, M. Chroust, A., J. Fortuny, M. Mazuch and M. Ivanov. 2019. First record of Diplocynodon ratelii Pomel, 1847 from the early Miocene site of Tušimice (Most Basin, Northwest Bohemia, Czech Republic). Comptes Rendus Palevol 18(7):877-889 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202068: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Diplocynodon ratelii Pomel 1847 crocodilian
UW6526A1 and UW6526A1-5