Dielsdorf fissure 1: Late/Upper Eocene, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Thaumastosaurus bottii De Stefano 1903
PIMUZ specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Necrolemur cf. antiquus Filhol 1873
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Palaeotheriidae
Anchilophus cf. dumasi Gervais 1849
recombined as Metanchilophus dumasi
Lophiotherium cf. siderolithicum (Pictet 1857)
Mammalia
Amphiperatherium bastbergense Crochet 1979
unclassified
Adelomys cf. vaillanti
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland
Coordinates: 47.5° North, 8.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° North, 4.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene Mammal zone: MP14-20
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Baden and Wetting limestone quarry; Dielsdorf Spalte
Database number:195853
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-08-28 11:33:13 Last modified:2018-08-28 11:36:11
Access level:the public Released:2018-08-28 11:33:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66667. D. Vasilyan. 2018. Eocene Western European endemic genus Thaumastosaurus: new insights into the question "Are the Ranidae known prior to the Oligocene?''. PeerJ 6:e5511:1-24 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]