Alversdorf (Eocene of Germany)

Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.1° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 6.5° E)

When: Gehlberg Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic sandstone

• phosphorite bearing greensands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. J. van Vliet, M. Bosselaers, B.-W. Vahldiek, T. Paymans, and I. Verheijen. 2020. Eocene cetaceans from the Helmstedt region, Germany, with some remarks on Platyosphys, Basilotritus and Pachycetus. Cainozoic Research 20(1):121-148 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 211071: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.06.2020

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867 whale
morphotype B (small ‘dorudontine’)
Pachycetus paulsoni whale
morphotype A