Ilm Valley, near Hetschburg (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.9° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 19.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wellenkalk Member (Jena Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Wellenkalk facies of Jena Fm., Lower Muschelkalk Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Wernburg

Primary reference: O. Rieppel and R. Wernburg. 1998. A new species of the sauropterygian Cymatosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of Thuringia, Germany. Palaeontology 41(4):575-589 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105188: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 17.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosauropterygia -
Cymatosaurus minor n. sp. Rieppel and Wernburg 1998 diapsid
NHMS-GT 21