Andreas Schorr GmbH & Co. KG (Jurassic of Germany)

Also known as Andreas Schorr GmbH & Co. KG close to the village of Wattendorf in northern Bavaria

Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.0° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 19.2° E)

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous bindstone

• The specimen comes from layer 12 of the main excavation level, a plattenkalk unit of just 150 mm thickness, which consists of very fine-grained, graded alternations of microbial bindstone laminae and very thin clay laminae.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. M. Martill, E. Frey, H. Tischlinger, M. Mäuser, H. E. Rivera-Sylva and S. U. Vidovic. 2023. A new pterodactyloid pterosaur with a unique filter-feeding apparatus from the Late Jurassic of Germany. PalZ 97(2):383-424 [M. Uhen/J. Williams/J. Williams]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231928: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jackson Williams on 02.10.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Ctenochasmatidae
Balaenognathus maeuseri
Balaenognathus maeuseri Martill et al. 2023 ctenochasmatid