Where: Germany (48.6° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ober Süßwassermolasse Formation, MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• The fossils from Sandelzhausen derive from a member of the OSM called Nördlicher Vollschotter, composed primarily of marl and gravel (Moser et al. 2009a). The age of these fossiliferous deposits was established by stratigraphic, biostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic correlations: the Early/Middle Miocene Burdigalian/Langhian boundary, early middle MN5 European Mammal Neogene zone (~16.47-16.27 Ma; Moser et al. 2009a).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the BSP

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: R. B. Salvador. 2015. The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany): Ellobiidae, Pupilloidea, and Clausilioidea. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89:37-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231113: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2023, edited by Graham Slater

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