Where: Austria (47.7° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• 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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Bittner. 1901. Lamellibranchiaten aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Bivalves from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(3):1-107 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203335: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.08.2019

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