Wasselonne (Triassic of France)

Where: Alsace, France (48.6° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.3° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Upper Muschelkalk (mo3) of Wasselone"

•"the skull must have come from layers stretching from the praenodosis Zone to the basal nodosus Zone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Charles Eschenlohr in 1988

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: O. Rieppel and H. Hagdorn. 1999. A skull of Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti & Pinna 1993, from the Muschelkalk of Wassonne (Alsace, France). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 73(3/4):377-383 [M. Carrano/H. Street/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104803: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 10.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Placodontia - Cyamodontidae
Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti and Pinna 1993 placodont
MHI 1294, partial skull