Where: Bayern, Germany (48.4° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.7° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• mittlere Serie der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse (middle series of Upper Freshwater Molasse);Above the "Brockhorizont", a layer generated by the Ries-impact
•the Ries ejecta are 14.88 +/- 0.11 Ma old (Aziz et al. 2007), implying a Langhian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• Most fossils are stored in the Bayerische Staatssammlung
Primary reference: K. Heissig. 1989. Neue Ergebnisse zur Stratigraphie der mittleren Serie der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Bayerns (New results on the stratigraphy of the middle series of upper Freshwater Molasse, Bavaria). Geologica Bavarica 94:239-257 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45605: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 17.11.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cepaea sp. Held 1838 slug | |
Reptilia | |
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803 glass lizard | |
Mammalia | |
Keramidomys cf. carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent | |
Dicrocerus elegans Lartet 1837 ruminant | |
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish |