Where: Germany (49.8° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 19.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Röt Formation, Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Myophoria beds ("Strohgelbe Kalke" according to Bashkuev et al., 2012). 0.6 m thick bed of brecciated yellow-gray to green-gray claystones and clay marls called "Breschenbank" (Breccia bed) at the top of the "Obere Dendritenschichten" (second topmost layer of "Myophorienschichten" (Myophoria Beds), Röt Formation), about 0.7–0.8 m below the Buntsandstein/Muschelkalk boundary.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum Terra Triassica, Euerdorf, Germany.

Primary reference: A. Bashkuev, J. Sell, D. Aristov, A. Ponomarenko, N. Sinitshenkova and H. Mahler. 2012. Insects from the Buntsandstein of Lower Franconia and Thuringia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86:175-185 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118034: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.10.2011

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