Alzey (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.8° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Tongrian (Upper Oligocene)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. Pilleri. 1987. The Sirenia of the Swiss Molasse 1-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65078: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx boulengeri n. sp. Reinach 1900 softshell turtle
BMNH 36765 - holotype
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Sirenia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Halitherium schinzii Kaup 1838 dugong