Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.4° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lettenkeuper Member (Erfurt Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• uppermost 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch. 1999. Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 278:1-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106361: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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