Hueb, Wald, Zürich (Miocene of Switzerland)

Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 6 (13.7 - 12.8 Ma)

• MN6?; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•400m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

• coars to medium sandstone with marl pebbles

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• 4 mammal teeth, 2 Celtis seeds

Primary reference: T.h. Bollinger. 1992. Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland)). Documenta naturae 75:1-296 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46244: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 09.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceoidae
Plesiodimylus sp. Gaillard 1897 placental
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion sp. Thaler 1966 mouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel