Tägernaustrasse, Jona, Sankt Gallen ("Assemblage"-zone) (Miocene of Switzerland)

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

• Coal and laminated marl with organic detritus

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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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Carex sp. Linnaeus 1753 sedge
Cladium sp. Browne sedge
 Typhales - Commelinidae
Sparganium sp. Linnaeus 1753 bur-reed
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
Pseudodryomys ibericus de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Miodyromys hamadryas Forsyth Major 1899 dormouse
ssp.
Miodyromys cf. aegercii Baudelot 1972 dormouse
? Paraglirulus sp. Engesser 1972 dormouse
it is written: Microdyromys/Paraglirulus indet.
Peridyromys cf. murinus Pomel 1853 dormouse
Bransatoglis astaracensis Baudelot 1970 dormouse
Microdyromys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Microdyromys cf. praemurinus Freudenberg 1941 dormouse
 Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
Anomalomys minor Fejfar 1972 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
? Miopetaurista sp. Kretzoi 1962 squirrel
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon aff. franconicus Fahlbusch 1966 mouse
Eumyarion bifidus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
 Theriamorpha - Dimylidae
Plesiodimylus helveticus n. sp. Bollinger 1992 placental
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Galerix symeonidisi Doukas 1986 hedgehog
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Plesiosoricidae
Plesiosorex cf. styriacus Hoffmann 1892 placental
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Desmanella sp. Engesser 1972 mole
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
 Artiodactyla -
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran