Oggenhof (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (48.4° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• Upper Fresh-water Molasse, Middle Sarmatian (Upper Miocene)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, micaceous, gray, blue, argillaceous, sandy marl

• In the South of the pit, 2 m above the basis was a lense of blue-gray argillaceous marls with fine sand and rich in mica, 20 cm in hight and 2 m in length. Most of the collection were gathered from this lense (750 kg had been sieved). The rest of the collection derived from a layer of the same pit, but the lithology is not mentioned.

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 48511: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 21.03.2005, edited by David Nicholson

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
"Ocadia sophiae" = Mauremys sophiae2
"Ocadia sophiae" = Mauremys sophiae2 Ammon 1911 pond turtle
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Cotimus bifidus" = Eumyarion bifidus, "Cotimus aff. medius" = Leidymys, Democricetodon aff. schaubi, Democricetodon cf. minor, Democricetodon affinis, Megacricetodon germanicus1, "Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius
"Cotimus bifidus" = Eumyarion bifidus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
21 teeth; originally entered as "Cotimus n. sp. bifidus", however, type locality is Sandelzhausen (coll. no 34615)
"Cotimus aff. medius" = Leidymys mouse
3 teeth
Democricetodon aff. schaubi mouse
n. sp., 23 teeth
Democricetodon cf. minor Lartet 1851 mouse
2 teeth
Democricetodon affinis Schaub 1925 mouse
n. ssp. mutilus, 17 teeth
"Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius Schaub 1925 mouse
aff. bavaricus (n. ssp), 46 teeth
1Heißig 1989; 2Hervet 2004