Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 20.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Atavus to pulcher zone, Meissner Formation (Muschelkalk Group), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• "Atavus to pulcher Zone, Bad Sulza Formation to lower Meissner Formation, lowermost Upper Muschelkalk, middle Illyrian, middle Anisian, Middle Triassic." (Diedrich 2011)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. G. Diedrich. 2011. The shallow marine placodont Cyamodus of the central European Germanic Basin: its evolution, paleobiogeography and paleoecology. Historical Biology 23(4):391-409 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196168: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 06.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cyamodus muensteri n. sp., Cyamodus rostratus n. sp.
Cyamodus muensteri n. sp. Agassiz 1834 placodont BSP 1210, incomplete juvenile skull; MLU.IfG and U-MO have unnumbered casts; also BMNH R1644, incomplete skull
Cyamodus rostratus n. sp. Münster 1839 placodont U-MO BT 748, nearly complete skull; SMNS 81669 is a cast
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Lariosaurus buzzii Tschanz 1989 diapsid SMF R4572, skull; SMF R784, humerus; SMF R951, vertebral centrum; UM-O BT-670, ischium; UM-O BT-722, femur
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