Where: Baden-Wuttemberg, Germany (49.3° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• "The exact stratigraphic horizon is Upper Hauptmuschelkalk (mo3), Hohenlohe Beds, between clay horizons g and e. Those beds belong either to the praenososus Zone or the nodosus Zone, indicating a late Ladinian (Longobardian) age for the specimen"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Hagdorn (MHI) in 1984

Primary reference: P. M. Sander and C. Faber. 1998. New finds of Omphalosaurus and a review of Triassic ichthyosaur paleobiogeography. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 72(1/2):149-162 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 103793: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 02.02.2011

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