Grube Goldbach, Rüti, Zürich (Miocene of Switzerland)

Where: Zürich, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 6 (13.7 - 12.8 Ma)

• MN6?; Obere Süßwassermolasse (upper Freshwater Molasse);

•190m (profile meter) above the Hüllistein marker bed

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• 3 mammal teeth

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46237: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 09.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Cheilanthes sp. Swartz 1806 lip fern
Rubiacites
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Angiospermae
 Laurales - Lauraceae
 Rosales - Rosaceae
Spiraea sp. n. gen.
Spiraea sp. n. gen. Linnaeus 1753 meadowsweet
 Fagales - Myricaceae
Myrica lignitum Unger 1850 bayberry
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglans cf. acuminata Braun 1845 walnut
 Fagales - Betulaceae
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus balsamoides Göppert 1855 poplar
Salix varians Göppert 1852 willow
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceoidae
Plesiodimylus sp. Gaillard 1897 placental