Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.6° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation (Molasse Group), MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• MN5"b"; Obere Süßwasser-Molasse (Upper Freshwater Molasse); Wu: MN 5/6: Upper Orleanian-Lower Astaracian.

•After Bollinger 1994: MN5"b" (=middle MN5).

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Total collection size entry (1125 specimens) has been removed after individual specimen numbers have been entered in the occurence list. (TL)

Primary reference: W. Wu. 1982. Die Cricetiden (Mammalia, Rodentia) aus der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse von Puttenhausen (Niederbayern); (The Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Puttenhausen, Bavaria). Zitteliana 9:37-80 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49418: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 15.04.2005, edited by Juliette Richter, Torsten Liebrecht and Matthew Carrano

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