Pöttmes (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (48.6° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Upper Fresh-water Molasse, Lower Tortonian (?)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone and marl

• 3 m of sand, fine laminated, in which fine iron-rich layers and lenses of marl are intercalated. Fossils were collected 1958 and 1959.

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 48322: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 16.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius, Democricetodon minor, Democricetodon affinis
"Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius Schaub 1925 mouse
n.ssp. bavaricus, 10 teeth
Democricetodon minor Lartet 1851 mouse
n.ssp. gracilis, 1 teeth
Democricetodon affinis Schaub 1925 mouse
n.ssp. mutilus, 1 teeth