Where: Germany (50.0° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 12.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bayreuth Formation, Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• The Bayreuth Formation is considered temporally contiguous with the Psilonotenton Formation (lower Hettangian) and the overlying Angulatensandstein Formation (upper Hettangian); however, these formations cannot be confidently discerned at Pechgraben (Bloos et al. 2006).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Harald Stapf

• Repository: Paläontologisches Museum Nierstein, Nierstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Primary reference: R. D. C. Bicknell, A. Hecker, and A. M. Heyng. 2021. New horseshoe crab fossil from Germany demonstrates post-Triassic extinction of Austrolimulidae. Geological Magazine 158:1461-1471 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221128: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2021

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