Gerstel 780m, Bichelsee, Thurgau (Miocene to of Switzerland)

Where: Thurgau, Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 6 to MN 6 (13.7 - 11.1 Ma)

• MN6-7(?); Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

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

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; marl

• floodplain with channels

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

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 46274: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceoidae
Plesiodimylus sp. Gaillard 1897 placental
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
Megacricetodon cf. minor Lartet 1851 mouse
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
Glirudinus undosus Mayr 1979 dormouse
Bransatoglis astaracensis Baudelot 1970 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotonidae indet. Thomas 1897 pika