Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 7.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 28 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Age is MP 28, given as lower Suevian, equivalent to lower Arikareean

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; red limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Boller and R. Ziegler in 1991; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, acetic,

• Fissure was discovered in March of 1991 at 4th level of the limestone quarry Herrlingen. 200 kg of infill have been secured during running quarry works (Ziegler, 1994).

Primary reference: Z. Szyndlar. 1994. Oligocene snakes of southern Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):24-37 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59125: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 14.03.2006, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Jonathan Tennant and Philip Mannion

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