Sagentobel, Zürich Canton: MN 6, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion medius Lartet 1851
Megacricetodon minor Lartet 1851
Cricetodon aff. meini Freudenthal 1963
Democricetodon mutilus (Fahlbusch 1964)
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Zürich
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 8.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.6° North, 7.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Stratigraphy comments: MN6; Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (Upper Freshwater Molasse);MN6 is not quite certain, it can be called "primitive MN6".
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:49578
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-20 06:21:12 Last modified:2007-03-02 22:58:22
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-20 06:21:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11712.5% 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]