Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 7.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 29 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• "Late Oligocene, MP 29"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; unlithified, gray, green claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1991; reposited in the SMF, SMNS

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• The fissure was discovered in February 1991 by M. Rummel of Erlangen. The screenwashed and censused material subsequently has been bought by the SMNS (Ziegler, 1994).

Primary reference: G. Mayr. 2001. The earliest fossil record of a modern-type piciform bird from the late Oligocene of Germany. Journal of Ornithology 142(1):2-6 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74679: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.08.2007, edited by Lars van den Hoek Ostende and Terri Cleary

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