Where: Sankt Gallen, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 7.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 4 (16.9 - 16.0 Ma)

• MN4; 17.5 M Years; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•340m (profile meter) below the Hüllistein marker bed.

•Karpatian

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; coal and marl

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;

•1600 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 46284: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.01.2005

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