Also known as Erl Saddle

Where: Tyrol, Austria (47.3° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cardita zone, Opponitzer Member (Lunz Formation), Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• "[upper Cardita layers (Torer layers, Opponitzer Limestones)]" (Bittner 1912)

•Opponitzer Limestone is the uppermost member of the Lunz Formation and is dated as Tuvalian (upper Carnian) on the basis of palynomorphs (e.g. Pott et al. 2007. Palaeontology 50:1299-1318), see Collection No. 97854

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Bittner. 1912. Brachiopoden aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Brachiopods from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(1):1-60 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203207: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 06.08.2019

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