Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49.8° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation (Rotliegend Group), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Saar-Nahe Basin, Kappeln Bank, Meisenheim Formation (M9)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: MNHM (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)

Primary reference: S. Glienke. 2015. Two new species of the genus Batropetes (Tetrapoda, Lepospondyli) from the Central European Rotliegend (basal Permian) in Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(2):1-27 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178735: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.05.2016

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