Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.9° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras hybonotum ammonoid zone, Solnhofen Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by Baron de Bayet

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• *The Editor who acted as the agent of Mr. Andrew Carnegie in the purchase of the Collection of Baron de Bayet and spent many weeks in Brussels in 1908 packing it for shipment to Pittsburgh recalls that the Baron informed him that the specimens from Solenhofen had been acquired at the quarries from the superintendents to whom the Baron had made an offer to recompense them for all fossils found by them in good condition as they proceeded with their work. This offer continued for a couple of years and it was thus that Baron de Bayet succeeded in amassing among other things the fine collection of insects from Solenhofen.

Primary reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1932. Jurassic insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Annals of Carnegie Museum 21:97-129 [C. Labandeira/A. Spencer-Lee/A. Spencer-Lee]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139876: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 19.02.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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