Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (51.6° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 20.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hardegsen Formation (Middle Buntsandstein Group), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• "Hardegsen Sandstone". The Hardegsen Formation underlies the Solling Formation within the upper Middle Buntsandstein, and is considered late Olenekian in age (e.g. Butler et al. 2011. PLoS ONE, Fig. 1)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical

• Specimen in Geologisches Institut der Universität Karlsruhe

Primary reference: B. Krebs. 1969. Ctenosauriscus koeneni (v. Huene), die Pseudosuchia und die Buntsandstein-Reptilien. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 62:697-714 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117152: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.09.2011

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