Where: Germany (50.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trochitenkalk Formation, Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lissocardia bed is a distinct 5-6 cm thick layer in the Brockelkalk 4a, 20 cm below the base of Trochitenbank 1. Biostratigraphically its position is exactly the base of the atavus-Biozone, which is of Late Anisian (Late Illyrian) age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Manfred Schulz (CSG)

Primary reference: A. Garassino, H. Hagdorn, and M. Schulz. 1999. A decapod crustacean assemblage from the Middle Triassic Upper Muschelkalk of Großenlüder (Hessen, Germany). Geologisches Jahrbuch Hessen 127:71-81 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127457: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 15.05.2012

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