Also known as Aetosaurus ferratus holotype site

Where: Baden-Württenburg, Germany (48.7° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Stubensandstein Member (Löwenstein Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "Lower Stubensandstein, Löwenstein Formation (marginal equivalent of Arnstadt Formation), Middle Keuper, Norian (Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005). Following O. Fraas (1887: 2), the block was found three metres above the main sandstone unit, within a local occurrence of mudstone, which Wild (1989) referred to the Untere Hangendletten."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1932. Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2):1-361 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92087: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2009, edited by Bethany Allen

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