Also known as Mühlheim
Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.9° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• Herrera et al. 2021: a succession of lithographic limestones of early Tithonian age (Hybonotum Zone, Moernsheimensis Subzone; Fig. 1) and can be assigned to the German lithostratigraphic unit Mörnsheim Formation. The here described specimen from the Mörnsheim Formation (Upper Jurassic, lower Tithonian) belongs to one of the youngest records from the Franconian Alb.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: calcareous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Y. Herrera, M. Aiglstorfer, and M. Bronzati. 2021. A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) from southern Germany: the first three-dimensionally preserved Cricosaurus skull from the Solnhofen Archipelago. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(2):145-167 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 224058: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 11.01.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Metriorhynchidae indet. Fitzinger 1843 marine crocodile
Cricosaurus rauhuti n. sp. Herrera et al. 2021 marine crocodile Holotype: SNSB-BSPG 1973 I 195, a three-dimensionally preserved skull lacking most of the rostrum and the anterior portion of the mandible.
Geosaurinae indet. Lydekker 1889 marine crocodile | |