Riesberg, Borgholzhausen (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (52.1° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 17.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Basal Upper Terebratula Member (Osnabrück Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lower Muschelkalk Subgroup

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. G. Diedrich. 2014. Marine Lariosaurus (Sauropterygia) records from the Middle Triassic Germanic Basin – stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic importance for Tethyan and Germanic Basin correlation. Albertiana 42:22-32 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196513: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 19.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Lariosaurus teutonicus Diedrich 1996 diapsid
"coll. MNUO" - may be synonymous with L. xingyiensis