PBDB Collection

Rygol Quarry, Painten (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.0° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras beckeri ammonoid zone, Arnstorf Member (Torleite Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• equivalent to upper part of Rögling Formation, Beckeri zone, Ulmense subzone, rebouletianum horizon

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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lime mudstone

• Sachs et al. 2021: The rocks of the Arnstorf Member were deposited in the ‘Painten lagoon’ of the Solnhofen archipelago, and the high abundance of land plants suggests it was a near-shore environment.

• Thin-bedded to laminated micritic limestones

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•Sachs et al. 2021: Its lithology represents a carbonate rock succession, dominated by lithographic as well as thin siliceous limestones (‘Plattensilex’). The formation ranges from the upper Aulacostephanus pseudomutabilis to the upper Hybonoticeras beckeri Tethyan ammonite Zones (Niebuhr and Pürner, 2014). The matrix BMMS-BK 1-2 is embedded in is a white-coloured thin and fine-laminated siliceous limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, trace, soft parts

Collected by R. Albersdörfer in 1985–

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Sachs et al. 2021: The specimen is on display at the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum in Solnhofen (Germany) and derives from the Upper Jurassic Torleite Formation. It was found in 2002 by Raimund Albersdörfer in the Rygol quarry in Painten, Bavaria (Southern Germany).

Primary reference: O. W. M. Rauhut, C. Foth, H. Tischlinger and M. A. Norell. 2012. Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 29:11746-11751 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130048: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.07.2012, edited by Roger Benson, Jonathan Tennant and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudinata -	Eurysternum wagleri³ Eurysternum wagleri³ Meyer 1839 turtle One adult specimen
Theropoda -	Theropoda indet.⁴, Sciurumimus albersdoerferi n. gen. n. sp. Theropoda indet.⁴ Marsh 1881 theropod tridactyl trackway with claw marks Sciurumimus albersdoerferi n. gen. n. sp. Rauhut et al. 2012 tetanuran theropod BMMS BK 11
Loricata -	"Alligatorium franconicum n. sp." = Alligatorium franconicum⁶, "Alligatorium paintenense n. sp." = Alligatorium franconicum⁶ "Alligatorium franconicum n. sp." = Alligatorium franconicum⁶ Ammon 1906 crocodilian "Alligatorium paintenense n. sp." = Alligatorium franconicum⁶ Ammon 1906 crocodilian
Loricata - Metriorhynchidae	Dakosaurus maximus⁷, Metriorhynchinae indet.², Cricosaurus sp.¹, Cricosaurus albersdoerferi n. sp.⁵ Dakosaurus maximus⁷ Plieninger 1846 marine crocodile SMNS 82043: right mandibular ramus in lithographic limestone, from Painten, Bayern, Germany Metriorhynchinae indet.² Buchy 2008 marine crocodile Cricosaurus sp.¹ Wagner 1858 marine crocodile BMM uncategorized Cricosaurus albersdoerferi n. sp.⁵ Sachs et al. 2021 marine crocodile Holotype: BMMS-BK 1-2, almost complete articulated skeleton

¹Andrade et al. 2010; ²Herrera et al. 2021; ³Karl et al. 2012; ⁴Pförringer 2000; ⁵Sachs et al. 2021; ⁶Wellnhofer 1971; ⁷Young et al. 2012