Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 7.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ulmer Schichten Member (Lower Freshwater Molasse Formation), MP 30 to MP 30 (28.4 - 22.4 Ma)
• basal "Ulm beds", Oligocene/Miocene transition (Werner, 1994)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, black, brown, calcareous, carbonaceous mudstone and unlithified sandstone
•fossils are exclusively from the mudstones
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected in 1987-1985; reposited in the SMNS
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• The fossiliferous layer is not accessible anymore (Werner, 1994).
Primary reference: J. Werner. 1994. Beiträge zur Biostratigraphie der Unteren Süßwasser-Molasse Süddeutschlands - Rodentia und Lagomorpha (Mammalia) aus den Fundstellen der Ulmer Gegend. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 200:1-263 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66110: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 28.09.2006, edited by Juliette Richter and Philip Mannion
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