Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.2° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Posidonia Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Lias Epsilon II1 or II2, lower part of Upper Liassic

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by B. Ludwig in 1976; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

Primary reference: R. L. Carroll. 1985. A pleurosaur from the Lower Jurassic and the taxonomic position of the Sphenodontida. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 189:1-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114111: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.08.2011

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