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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Cymatosaurus minor n. sp.
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