Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (51.3° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• After Krumbiegel 1977 the collection is a subset of collection 45002 (Mittelkohle, Zone II), but it might be a subset of collection 13322 (Mittelkohle, Zone III), according to the stratigraphy of Haubold 1982.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: K.-H. Fischer. 1977. Neue Funde von Rhinocerolophiodon (n. gen.), Lophiodon und Hyrachyus (Ceratomorpha, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) aus dem Eozän des Geiseltals bei Halle (DDR); Teil 2: Lophiodon. (New fossils of Rhinocerolophiodon (n. gen.), Lophiodon and Hyrachyus from the Eocene of the Geiseltal, Halle (DDR); second part: Lophiodon). Zeitschrift der geologischen Wissenschaften 5(9):1129-1152 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45765: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.12.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

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