Where: Alzey, Germany (49.6° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 5.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• "Unterer Meeressand" --Lower Sea Sand. Finds concentrated in two places.

•The highest in the area of ​​the sea sand yielded the remains of a sea turtle shell, below some fragmentary freshwater turtles were salvaged (Google translation)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: found during construction works

Primary reference: H.-V. Karl and G. Tichy. 1999. Zur Taxonomie eines neuen Tribus von Seeschildkröten aus dem Oligozän von Deutschland (Testudines: Chelonioidea). Joannea Geologie und Paläontologie 1:61-77 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189577: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 01.11.2017

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