Also known as Kupferzell-Bauersbach

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.2° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 17.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lettenkeuper Member (Erfurt Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Collected from the "Untere Graue Mergel" of the Upper Lettenkeuper, now formally the Erfurt Formation of the Lower Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296). This locality is Longobardian (late Ladinian) in age. Fossils collected from a 30 cm thick unit. Schoch (1999: fig. 5) provides a stratigraphic section through the Kupferzell section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; green, yellow marl and muddy dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. G. Wegele in 1977; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Wild. 1980. Die Saurierfunde von Kupferzell [The reptile finds of Kupferzell]. Schwäbische Heimat 31:110-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101873: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.01.2011, edited by Bethany Allen and Matthew Carrano

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