Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.5° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chirotherien Sandstein Member (Solling Formation), Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lowest layer of the Chirotherium Sandstone (Middle Bundsandstein). Chirotherium Sandstone is equivalent to the uppermost part of the Solling Formation, which is dated as earliest Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; medium-grained, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Geissenhöhner in 1937; reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• A fairly detailed description of the preparation of the type specimen of A. liliensterni is given by v. Huene (1939).

•The specimen was found by the bricklayer Geissenhöhner and then came to the founder of the local museum and hobby paleontologist Rühe von Lilienstern who loaned it for the purpose of scientific examination to von Huene (ibid.).

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1939. Ein neuer Procolophonide aus dem deutschen Buntsandstein. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilagen-Band, Abteilung B 81:501-511 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85958: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.01.2009

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