Eitensheim (Miocene to of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (48.8° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

• Upper Fresh-water Molasse, Lower Tortonian, Upper Helvetian is also possible.

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•This collection is probably at the Burdigalian/Langhian boundary. "Tortonian" was used in a different context in the eastern Paratethys.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shelly/skeletal lignite and sandy marl

• Under a layer of gastropod-rich loess, 1,5 m in thickness, is a layer of greenish-gray fine sand and marl of the upper Fresh-water molasse, 3 m in thickness. About 0,5 m below the loess, intercalated in the sand, there is a 20 cm thick layer of lignite, rich in gastropod shells. Mammal fossils derived from this lignite.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: V. Fahlbusch. 1964. Die Cricetiden (Mamm.) der Oberen Süßwasser-Molasse Bayerns (Cricetids of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of Bavaria). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse; Abhandlungen, neue Folge 118:1-136 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48320: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 16.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon aff. schaubi, "Cotimus aff. medius" = Leidymys, "Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius
Democricetodon aff. schaubi mouse
n. sp., 1 tooth
"Cotimus aff. medius" = Leidymys mouse
1 tooth
"Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius Schaub 1925 mouse
n.ssp. bavaricus, 9 teeth
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton inexpectatum
Albanerpeton inexpectatum Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod