Also known as Champ Benais

Where: Switzerland (47.2° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Helvetian (Lower Middle Miocene)

Environment/lithology: marine

Primary reference: G. Pilleri. 1987. The Sirenia of the Swiss Molasse 1-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65064: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2006