Vils, near Füssen (Jurassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.5° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 21.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• "Doggerkalken with Waldheimia pala, Rhynchonella vilsensis and Hecticoceras hecticum." Early Callovian age based on Hecticoceras hecticum.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Mineralogical Museum and Institute of Universitat Kiel

Primary reference: E. Stolley. 1914. Über einige Brachyuren aus der Trias und dem Dogger der Alpen. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 64:675-682 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23833: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by Dena Smith on 22.07.2002, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Prosopidae
Prosopon vilsense n. sp. Stolley 1914 crab