Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.0° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 19.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Strohgelbe Kalke Formation, Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "The specimen was discovered in a less than 1 m thick bed of greyish to yellowish dolomitic marls, the so called 'Strohgelbe Kalke'.This marker bed immediately below the BuntsandsteinlMuschelkalk boundary can be traced from central Thuringia to Lower Franconia (200 km). It is the uppermost unit of the 'MyophorienSchichten' (Myophoria beds) that represents the upper part of the Rot-4-Folge (regional geochronological unit)" Ansorge & Brauckmann, 2008

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, dolomitic, gray, yellow marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Hans Hagdorn

Primary reference: J. Ansorge and C. Brauckmann. 2008. Chaulioditidae from Germany with a description of a new specimen from the early Middle Triassic of Gambach/Main, Bavaria (Insecta: Grylloblattida). Entomologia Generalis 31(3):251-260 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114709: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.08.2011

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