Frechen mine (Pliocene of Germany)

Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (50.9° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 16b mammal zone, Reuver clay Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Pliocene (MN 16b).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; lignite and lenticular, sandy claystone

• sediments are channel-fill, but environment interpreted as including brackish-estuarine, lacustrine-fluviatile and terrestrial environments.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Mors. 2002. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of continental Tertiary vertebrate faunas in the Lower Rhine Embayment (NW-Germany). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 81(2):177-183 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205172: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list in Mors 2002 is presented as a composite between this collection and Hambach 11. As a result I've put most of the stuff in there and only included taxa here talked about in papers referenced in that paper. Once other lit comes out it should be easier to define what is in which collection.
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus sp.2, Blackia sp.2
Sciurus sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
Blackia sp.2 Mein 1970 squirrel
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus cf. stavus2
Apodemus cf. stavus2 Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys cf. polonicus2, Ungaromys altenburgensis2
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Glirulus cf. pusillus" = Amphidyromys pusillus2
"Glirulus cf. pusillus" = Amphidyromys pusillus2 Heller 1936 Japanese dormouse
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Blarinoides mariae1, Deinsdorfia hibbardi1, Sorex cf. minutus1
Blarinoides mariae1 Sulimski 1959 red-toothed shrew
Deinsdorfia hibbardi1 red-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. minutus1 Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Galemys cf. kormosi1, Talpa cf. minor1
Galemys cf. kormosi1 Schreuder 1940 Pyrenean desman
Talpa cf. minor1 Freudenberg 1914 mole
1Reumer 1995; 2van Kolfschoten et al. 1998