Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° N, 8.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grimmelfinger Schichten Member (Brackwater Molasse Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• basal Grimmelfingen beds ("Grimmelfinger Graupensande"), late Early Miocene, Orleanian (Sach & Heizmann, 2001)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; fine-grained, sandy gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by K. Heissig in 1996; reposited in the BSP
Primary reference: V. J. Sach and E. P. J. Heizmann. 2001. Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 310:1-95 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70321: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Plesiaceratherium sp. Young 1937 rhinoceros
cf. Diaceratherium aurelianense Nouel 1866 rhinoceros |