Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.4° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 7.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 6 (13.7 - 12.8 Ma)

• MN6; Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (Upper Freshwater Molasse);MN6 is not quite certain, it can be called "primitive MN6".

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T.h. Bollinger. 1994. Die Obere Süßwassermolasse in Bayern und der Ostschweiz: bio- und lithostratigraphische Korrelationen (Upper Freshwater molasse in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland: bio- and lithostratigraphic correlations). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 34:109-144 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49578: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 20.04.2005

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