Where: Germany (49.3° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 20.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite
Primary reference: R. Hengsbach. 1985. Die Ammoniten-Gattung Catacoeloceras im S-franzoesischen und S-deutschen Ober-Toarcien. The ammonite genus Catacoeloceras in the upper Toarcian of southern France and southern Germany. Senckenbergiana lethaea 65(4/6):347-411 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38639: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.04.2004, edited by Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Catacoeloceras raquinianum d'Orbigny 1845 ammonite including forms crassiformis, confecta & platyconcha
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"Mystriosaurus tenuirostris n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis, "Mystriosaurus egertoni n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis, "Mystriosaurus speciosus n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis
"Mystriosaurus tenuirostris n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile Maxillary fragment, destroyed specimen from the Münster collection of the Munich Museum
"Mystriosaurus egertoni n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile Hessian Landesmuseum Darmstadt and in the collection of the Castle Bayreuth: bones and osteoderms of one individual first reported by Kaup (1841) and Münster (1843)
"Mystriosaurus speciosus n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile 4 associated fragments of a maxilla, destroyed specimen from the Münster collection of the Munich Museum
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