Schauenberg-Langriet, Turbenthal, Zürich (Miocene of Switzerland)

Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.4° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 6 (13.7 - 12.8 Ma)

• Bollinger 1994: MN6; Bollinger 1992: MN6-7(?)

•Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•472?m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; marl

• floodplain with channels

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• 24 mammal teeth, 22 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 46273: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953 mouse
Democricetodon mutilus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Cricetodon sp. Lartet 1851 mouse
Cricetodon cf. sansaniensis Lartet 1851 mouse
? Megacricetodon similis Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
Bransatoglis astaracensis Baudelot 1970 dormouse
Eomuscardinus sansaniensis Lartet 1851 dormouse
Paraglirulus conjunctus Mayr 1979 dormouse
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew