Where: Bayern, Germany (48.5° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 9.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• MN5"c"; Obere Süßwassermolasse (Upper Freshwater Molasse), Middle Miocene, MN6; the fossils are taken from the "Brockhorizont" a layer in the sorrounding of the Ries, which generated during the Ries-meteor-impact. So the fossils have the same age as the impact, which is estimated to have taken place 14,7 Myr ago.
•MN5"c" (=upper MN5) after Bollinger 1994.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone and unlithified, argillaceous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• Museum: Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie, München
Primary reference: K. Heissig. 1989. Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria). Geologica Bavarica 94:239-257 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44977: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 24.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Limax sp. Linnaeus 1758 slug | |
Planorbarius sp. Dumeril 1806 snail | |
Pomatias sp. Stimpson 1860 periwinkle | |
Reptilia | |
Diplocynodon sp. Pomel 1847 crocodilian | |
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard | |
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard | |
Mammalia | |
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore | |
Chalicotherium sp. Kaup 1833 chalicothere | |
Brachypotherium brachypus Lartet 1848 rhinoceros | |
Taucanamo sansaniense Lartet 1851 even-toed ungulate | |
Dorcatherium vindobonense von Meyer 1846 chevrotain
Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer 1846 chevrotain | |
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Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837 ruminant
Lagomeryx sp. Roger 1904 ruminant | |
Palaeomeryx cf. bojani ruminant | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew | |
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
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Democricetodon sp.1, "Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis, ? Eumyarion bifidus1, Eumyarion weinfurteri, Cricetodon meini1, Megacricetodon minor2
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Eumyarion weinfurteri Schaub and Zapfe 1953 mouse | |
Bransatoglis sp. Hugueney 1967 dormouse | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
Pliopithecus antiquus Blainville 1839 monkey | |
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish |