Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Randeck Maar Formation, MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)
• Early/Middle Miocene (Burdigalian, Karpatian, MN 5, ca. 16–18 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: R. B. Salvador, M. W. Rasser, and O. Höltke. 2015. Fossil gastropods from Miocene Lake Randeck Maar and its hinterland (SW Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 277(3):251-273 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172953: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.09.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ferrissia deperdita Desmarest 1814 snail
Planorbarius cornu Brongniart 1810 snail
Gyraulus kleini Gottschick and Wenz 1916 snail | |
Praeoestophorella phacodes Thomae 1845 slug |