Where: Baden-Württenburg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 17.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Posidonia Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: F. Westphal. 1962. Die Krokodilier des Deutschen und Englischen Oberen Lias [The crocodiles of the German and English Upper Lias]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 118(1-3):23-118 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132854: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mystriosaurus mandelslohi n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis
"Mystriosaurus mandelslohi n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile SMNS 20283; holotype partial skeleton of M. mandelslohi, first reported by Bronn 1841, when it was in the collection of Count Mandelsloh in Ulm
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