Where: Germany (49.1° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nodosus ammonoid zone, Meißner Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Upper part of Meißner Formation, Tonsteinhorizont 6 (former Tonhorizont zeta).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Muschelkalkmuseum Ingelfingen, Germany

Primary reference: M. Zatoń, H. Hagdorn, and T. Borszcz. 2014. Microconchids of the species Microconchus valvatus (Münster in Goldfuss, 1831) from the Upper Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of Germany. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94:453-461 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157579: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.06.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

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