Schmalegger Tobel: MN 6, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Margaritiferidae
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Margaritifera flabellata
(Goldfuss 1837)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Elonidae
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Pseudochloritis incrassata
(Klein 1853)
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Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 47.8° North, 9.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.4° North, 9.3° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Serravallian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | MN 6 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 13.82000 - 12.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: fine-sand horizons with reworked OSM components, ~510 m above sea level | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine sandstone |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SMNS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 231130 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | freshwater |
| Created: | 2023-08-05 14:01:30 | Last modified: | 2023-08-05 14:01:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2023-08-05 14:01:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 85575. | R. B. Salvador, V. J. Sach, and B. L. Valentas-Romera. 2015. The fossil continental mollusks in the upper freshwater molasse (Middle Miocene) of the districts of Biberach, Ravensburg and Neu-Ulm, Germany. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 18:201-216 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |