Ehrenstein 9: Early/Lower Miocene, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus myarion Schaub 1930
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg County:Alb-Donau-Kreis
Coordinates: 48.4° North, 9.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.5° North, 8.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Agenian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: infill of karstic fissure in Upper Jurassic limestones of the Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb)
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:none
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:6 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Metadata
Database number:66140
Authorizer:L. van den Hoek Ostende Enterer:L. van den Hoek Ostende
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-09-30 02:26:51 Last modified:2013-02-01 05:31:40
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-30 02:26:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18709. J. Werner. 1994. Beiträge zur Biostratigraphie der Unteren Süßwasser-Molasse Süddeutschlands - Rodentia und Lagomorpha (Mammalia) aus den Fundstellen der Ulmer Gegend. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 200:1-263 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]