Where: Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (47.2° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

• MN3; 1200m (profile meter) below the Hüllistein marker bed;

•21.5 Mill. Years

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; coarse-grained, carbonaceous sandstone and lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMB

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• It is chosen as an "Assemblage-Zone" and is stored in the Naturhistorischen Museum Basel and in the Paläontological Insitute and Museum Zürich.

•70 mammal teeth, one lower jaw, 11 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 46283: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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