Crailsheim (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: D. J. Gower and R. R. Schoch. 2009. Postcranial anatomy of the rauisuchian archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29:103-122 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101877: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Batrachotomus kupferzellensis Gower 1999 archosaur
SMNS 54840, distal tibia