Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51.8° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tragophylloceras ibex ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2007

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde in Münster, Germany

Primary reference: L. Schwermann and P. M. Sander. 2011. Osteologie und Phylogenie von Westphaliasaurus simonsensii: Ein neuer Plesiosauride (Sauropterygia) aus dem Unteren Jura (Pliensbachium) von Sommersell (Kreis Höxter), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 79:1-60 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119605: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 30.10.2011

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