Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (52.1° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 19.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: orbicularis Member, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "The orbicularis beds were assigned to the top of the lower Muschelkalk by Dames (1890), but are now considered the base of the middle Muschelkalk (Hagdom, 1991)."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Rieppel and K. Lin. 1995. Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. Fieldiana: Geology, new series (32)1-44 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195570: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 13.08.2018

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