Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.4° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 7.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ulmer Schichten Member (Lower Freshwater Molasse Formation), MP 30 (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• basal "Ulm beds", Oligocene/Miocene transition (Werner, 1994 p. 9)
•Werner (1994, p. 202), however, says that only Eggingen-Mittelhart 2 provided a mammal fauna that is transitional between the Upper Oligocene and the Lower Miocene whereas Eggingen-Mittelhart 1 can clearly be dated as Upper Oligocene (MP 30).
•stratigraphy, originally entered as >>Late/Upper Oligocene<< to >>Early/Lower Miocene<< has been modified accordingly (TL)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, black, brown, calcareous, carbonaceous mudstone and unlithified sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collected in 1983; reposited in the BSP, SMNS
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• The fossiliferous layer is not accessible anymore (Werner, 1994).
•EGMH-1 refers to material housed in the Wannemacher collection
•Original total collection size entry (4500 specimens) has been removed since individual specimen numbers have been entered for each taxon. (TL)
Primary reference: J. Werner. 1994. Beiträge zur Biostratigraphie der Unteren Süßwasser-Molasse Süddeutschlands - Rodentia und Lagomorpha (Mammalia) aus den Fundstellen der Ulmer Gegend. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 200:1-263 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66109: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 28.09.2006, edited by Juliette Richter, Torsten Liebrecht and Philip Mannion
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