Where: Oberösterreich, Austria (48.2° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° N, 12.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Älterer Schlier Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Lower Miocene, upper Egerian stage (=early Aquitanian), corresponding to the lower part of the nannoplankton zone NN2 (Gregorova et al. 2009; Grunert et al. 2010). Description and comparisons (Gölich & Mayr 2017).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 1980
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien collection
Primary reference: J. Mlikovsky. 1987. Eine neue Alkenart (Aves: Alcidae) aus dem Ober-Oligozän Österreiches. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 88:131-147 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84653: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.11.2008
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