Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (51.5° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 19.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Myophoria vulgaris small shelly zone, Röt Formation (Buntsandstein Group), Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• from Upper Buntsandstein (Myophoria Beds, Upper Röt Formation)

•"Lowermost Muschelkalk (mu1, lower Anisian)" (Rieppel 1997)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1999. Variation of cranial characters in Cymatosaurus 'gracilis' Schrammen 1899 (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), and its implications for systematics. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 73(3/4):369-375 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106438: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.03.2011

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