Ornberg-Dürnten, Zürich ("Assemblage"-Zone): MN 6, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753
Mammalia
Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777
Mammalia - Dimylidae
Plesiodimylus sp. Gaillard 1897
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotonidae indet. Thomas 1897
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Blackia miocaenica Mein 1970
Spermophilinus bredai (von Meyer 1848)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion cf. latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953
    = ? Eumyarion latior Schaub and Zapfe 1953
Bollinger 1994
Megacricetodon similis Fahlbusch 1964
    = ? Megacricetodon similis Fahlbusch 1964
Bollinger 1994
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Myoglis meini de Bruijn 1966
Microdyromys sp. de Bruijn 1966
Microdyromys cf. miocaenicus
Paraglirulus werenfelsi Engesser 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys carpathicus (Schaub and Zapfe 1953)
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Zürich County:Dürnten
Coordinates: 47.3° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 7.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:825 meters
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: MN 6
Age range of interval: 13.82 - 12.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MN6; 14.5 M Years; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);
470m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed.
Bollinger 1994: uppermost part of MN6
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: floodplain with channels
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.200 Maximum sieve size:1.250
Collection size:34 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: It is chosen as an "Assemblage-Zone" and is stored in the Paläontological Insitute and Museum Zürich.
30 mammal teeth, 4 Celtis seeds.
Metadata
Database number:46287
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-10 02:55:33 Last modified:2007-03-02 22:53:39
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-10 02:55:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12335. T.h. Bollinger. 1992. Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland)). Documenta naturae 75:1-296 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]

Secondary references:

117125% 6560T.h. Bollinger. 1994. Die Obere Süßwassermolasse in Bayern und der Ostschweiz: bio- und lithostratigraphische Korrelationen (Upper Freshwater molasse in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland: bio- and lithostratigraphic correlations). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 34:109-144 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]