Odernheim (Permian to of Germany)

Also known as Odernheimer Kalkbank

Where: Rhineland-Palatine, Germany (49.8° N, 7.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 19.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• Meisenheim Formation (M8), Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany

•Obernheimer Kalkbank ("limestone bank")

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180800: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Apateon pedestris von Meyer 1840 tetrapod
PIM material
 Temnospondyli -
Glanochthon angusta n. sp.2 Schoch and Witzmann 2009 tetrapod
GPIM-N 1217 (Holotype: a complete skull in dorsal exposure (136mm))
Sclerocephalus haeuseri1 Goldfuss 1847 tetrapod
UMZC T.19 (small skull, holotype of Leptophus levis) and UMZC T.21 (small skull) - both figured by Bulman & Whittard (1926)