Also known as Hessler, Biebrich, Mosbach-Biebrich

Where: R.-P. and Hesse, Germany (50.0° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 6.1° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: MN 2 (22.4 - 20.0 Ma)

• The fossils most likely come from beds referred to as Wiesbaden Formation (formerly "Hydrobienschichten", Lower Miocene) in modern lithostratigraphic nomenclature of the Mainz Basin.

Environment/lithology: peritidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the SMF

Primary reference: R. Ziegler. 1990. Talpidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) aus dem Oberoligozän und Untermiozän Süddeutschlands. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 167:1-81 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/J. Richter/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69606: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Juliette Richter on 28.02.2007, edited by Mark Uhen, Torsten Liebrecht, David Nicholson and Terri Cleary

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