Chlihörnli 1000m, Sternenberg, Zürich (Miocene of Switzerland)

Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.4° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 7 + 8 (12.8 - 11.1 Ma)

• MN7?; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•655m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lignite

• floodplain with channels and lake/marsh deposits

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• 5 mammal teeth

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 46265: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Selaginella sp. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss
Angiospermae
 Dipsacales - Adoxaceae
Sambucus sp. Linnaeus 1753 elder
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Carex sp. Linnaeus 1753 sedge
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Eomuscardinus aff. sansaniensis Lartet 1851 dormouse
 Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
Anomalomys gaudryi Mein and Freudenthal 1971 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
 Theriamorpha - Dimylidae
Dimylidae indet. Schlosser 1887 placental
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet., "Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
"Heterosoricidae indet." = Heterosoricinae Viret and Zapfe 1951 shrew