Where: Bayern, Germany (48.9° N, 11.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 32.1° N, 24.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonotum ammonoid zone, Solnhofener Plattenkalk Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (149.2 - 145.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From several beds within the Solnhofener Plattenkalk, including Malm 2b, and the Hybonoticeras hybonotum biozone. AGE: Lower Tithonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, soft parts

Collected by Muenste, Keupp; reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Muenster, ~1840's; Keupp (more recently). REPOSITORY: Museum of Natural History, Berlin, and the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, Free University of Berlin.

Primary reference: D. Fuchs, H. Keupp, and T. Engeser. 2003. New records of soft parts of Muensterella scutellaris Muenster, 1842 (Coeloidea) from the Late Jurassic plattenkalks or Eichstãtt and their significance for octobrachian relationships. Berliner Paläobio. Abh. 3:101-111 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84365: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2008, edited by John Alroy, Richard Butler, Roger Benson and Bethany Allen

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