Where: Muğla, Turkey (36.9° N, 29.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 24.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cenger Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• "The Cenger Formation begins with a red polygenetic sandstone with a calcareous matrix, which has yielded the bones and teeth described here and fills deep karstic pockets in the underlying limestone of Late Permian age"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; red, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. Monod in 1983

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, M. Martin, and O. Monod. 1988. Phytosaur remains from the Cenger Formation of the Lycian Taurus (Western Turkey): stratigraphical implications. Geobios 21(2):237-243 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93558: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010

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