Where: Bayern, Germany (48.4° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 9.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• Upper Fresh-water Molasse, Lower Sarmatian (?)(Upper Miocene)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, micaceous, gray, blue sandstone and marl
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 48512: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 21.03.2005, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius, "? Cotimus aff. medius" = Leidymys
"Democricetodon gregarius" = Megacricetodon gregarius Schaub 1925 mouse aff. ssp. bavaricus, 1 tooth
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Reptilia | |
Macrochelys mira alligator snapping turtle
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868 turtle | |
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle | |
Ocadia guntiana turtle
Ptychogaster sp. Pomel 1847 turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle |