Where: Germany (48.7° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 8.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• Biostratigraphic correlation of Oggenhausen 2 is possible due to the presence of small mammalian teeth, correlating the deposits to the middle of the European Mammal Neogene zone MN 5 (Böttcher et al., 2009; Reichenbacher et al., 2013). However, the stratigraphic relation between the sediments of Oggenhausen 1 and 2 remains unclear, due to the different mammalian faunas found in each locality (see Böttcher et al., 2009 for more details). Nevertheless, Böttcher et al. (2009) considers that Oggenhausen 1 also belong to the middle of the MN 5 zone (this zone goes from ca. 17 to 16 Ma; Reichenbacher et al., 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: R. B. Salvador and M. W. Rasser. 2016. The fossil land and freshwater snails of Oggenhausen (Middle Miocene, Germany). Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 19:41-52 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231118: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2023

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