Where: Aargau, Switzerland (47.3° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 6.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Freshwater Molasse Group, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• "Based on bio- and magnetostratigraphic data, SP 618 is c. 16.1–16.2 m.y. old (late Early Miocene)"
Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium sandstone and paleosol/pedogenic, gray, green siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: J. Jost, D. Kälin, S. Börner, D. Vasilyan, D. Lawver and B. Reichenbacher. 2015. Vertebrate microfossils from the Upper Freshwater Molasse in the Swiss Molasse Basin: Implications for the evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin during the Miocene Climate Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 426:22-33 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 201974: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 13.06.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890 | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard
Anguis sp. Linnaeus 1758 slow worm | |
Amphisbaenidae indet. Gray 1865 worm lizard | |
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates | |
Testudoolithidae indet. Hirsch 1996 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
"Lipotyphla indet." = Eulipotyphla
"Lipotyphla indet." = Eulipotyphla placental | |
Galerix sp. Pomel 1848 hedgehog | |
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Miodyromys aff. aegercii Baudelot 1972 dormouse | |
Prolagus oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
Amphibia | |
Proteidae indet. Hogg 1838 mudpuppy | |
Gastropoda | |
Bithynia sp. Leach 1818 snail | |
Gyraulus sp. Charpentier 1837 snail | |
Limax sp. Linnaeus 1758 slug | |
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