Eggingen-Mittelhart 2 (Oligocene to of Germany)

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

• The locality is in the so called "Ulmer Schichten" ("Ulm beds"), wich represent the Lower Freshwater Molasse in the Ulm area, the latter being part of the northern margin of the alpine molasse basin. The "Ulm beds" are also referred to as "subjurassic molasse" due to its position immediately south of the Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb) (Werner, 1994).
• "Graupensande" of the Brackwater Molasse (MN4b) cut down into deep brown to black marly, highly fossiliferous bituminous mudstones ('chocolate marls') of the Lower Freshwater Molasse, the latter being partly interspersed with gastropod shell debris (Werner, 1994)

•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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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Dimylidae
"Pseudocordylodon sp." = Dimyloides3
"Pseudocordylodon sp." = Dimyloides3 Hürzeler 1944 placental
Pseudocordylon sp. 1 and sp.2
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Paratalpa micheli2 Lavocat 1951 mole
Desmanella sp.2 Engesser 1972 mole
Hugueneya primitiva2 Hutchison 1974 mole
Myxomygale cf. engesseri2 Doukas 1986 mole
Percymygale minor1 Ziegler 1990 mole
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Rhodanomys transiens Hugueney 1969 rodent
Rhodanomys latens n. sp. Werner 1994 rodent
Eomyodon mayoi Engesser 1990 rodent
Apeomys tuerkheimae Fahlbusch 1968 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon cf. longidens Hugueney 1969 mouse
Pseudocricetodon thaleri Hugueney 1969 mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Microdyromys cf. monspeliensis Aguilar 1977 dormouse
Suevoglis wannemacheri n. gen. n. sp. Werner 1994 dormouse
Bransatoglis concavidens Hugueney 1967 dormouse
Bransatoglis aff. fugax Hugueney 1967 dormouse
"Glirudinus" glirulus Dehm 1935 dormouse
"Glirudinus" eggingensis n. sp. Werner 1994 dormouse
Peridyromys "sp. 1" Stehlin and Schaub 1951 dormouse
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Amphiperatherium exile3 Gervais 1848 marsupial
A. exile seu frequens