Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 17.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-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.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SMNS
Primary reference: R. Damiani, R. R. Schoch, H. Hellrung, R. Werneburg, and S. Gastou. 2009. The plagiosaurid temnospondyl Plagiosuchus pustuliferus (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Germany: anatomy and functional morphology of the skull. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155:348-373 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106352: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Jaxtasuchus salomoni3 Schoch and Sues 2014 archosauromorph SMNS 90505, dorsal vertebrae, numerous osteoderms, ribs, and possible gastralia
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Horaffia kugleri n. gen. n. sp.1
Horaffia kugleri n. gen. n. sp.1 Klein and Hagdorn 2014 diapsid MHI 2112/5 (holotype), left humerus; MHI 2112/4, humerus
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