Nothosaurus jagisteus-type locality (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Quarry of the Schotterwerke Hohenlohe-Bauland

Where: Hohenlohe, Germany (49.3° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: nodosus-semipartitus ammonoid zone, Hohenlohe Member (Meissner Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Hohenlohe Subformation of the MeiBner Formation, nodosus through semipartitus biozone, Upper Muschelkalk, Lower Ladinian, Middle Triassic

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: mechanical

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 2001. A new species of Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Muschelkalk (Lower Ladinian) of southwestern Germany. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 263:137-161 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194779: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 29.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus jagisteus n. sp. Rieppel 2001 diapsid
SMNS 56618;