Also known as Lainecker Berg, Bayreuth
Where: Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 18.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Upper Muschelkalk Subgroup (mo1)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: O. Rieppel and R. Wild. 1996. A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 34:1-82 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138096: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.01.2013, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Placodus gigas Agassiz 1833 placodont | |
Nothosaurus giganteus n. sp., Nothosaurus mirabilis n. sp.
Nothosaurus giganteus n. sp. Münster 1834 diapsid Holotype skull fragments (BT uncatalogued); paratype posterior mandible (BT uncatalogued)
Nothosaurus mirabilis n. sp. Münster 1834 diapsid BT uncatalogued specimens: holotype partial postcranial skeleton (Meyer 1847, plate 23), and paratypes
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