Aarwangen: MP 27, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Eggysodontidae
Eggysodon gaudryi Rames 1886
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ronzotherium romani
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapiridae indet. (Gray 1821)
original and current combination Taperidae
NMB AW35
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotherium sp. Cuvier 1822
    = Paenanthracotherium hippoideum Rutimeyer 1856
Scherler et al. 2019
Elomeryx borbonicus Geais 1934
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland
Coordinates: 47.2° North, 7.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.1° North, 5.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:MP 27 Mammal zone:
Age range of interval:28.40000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Type locality of the Aarwanger Molasse, an equivalent of the Molasse alsacienne
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:184454
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-03-01 05:11:51 Last modified:2017-03-01 05:11:51
Access level:the public Released:2017-03-01 05:11:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61798. L. Scherler, D. Becker, and J.-P. Berger. 2011. Tapiridae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) of the Swiss Molasse Basin during the Oligocene–Miocene transition. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):479-496 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

67211 L. Scherler, F. Lihoreau, and D. Becker. 2019. To split or not to split Anthracotherium? A phylogeny of Anthracotheriinae (Cetartiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) and its palaeobiogeographical implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(2):487-510 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]