Where: Hessen, Germany (49.9° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Messel Formation, MP 11 (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• Middle part of Messel-Formation, about 16-17 m above the Alpha-marker bed; lower Middle Eocene (Lower Geiseltalium)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the SMF

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. L. Franzen. 1987. Ein neuer Primate aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel (Deutschland, S-Hessen); (A new primate from the Middle Eocene of Grube Messel (Germany, Southern Hessen)). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 91:151-187 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58140: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 24.01.2006

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