Also known as Zanclodon bavaricus type site

Where: Bayern, Germany (50.2° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Keuper Group, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• Upper Keuper subgroup according to Galton (2000); found in a dark marl that overlies a dolomite layer, which in turn lies on Keuper red marls. Above the dark marl is yellow Rhaetian sandstone (Rhätsandstein) (Moser 2003:153).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black, gray shale and dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Sandberger in 1884

Collection methods: core,

• UW: University of Würzberg

Primary reference: F. v. Sandberger. 1884. Bemerkungen über die Grenzregion zwischen Keuper und Lias in Unterfranken [Comments on the border region between the Keuper and Lias in Lower Franconia]. Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, Neue Folge 1884:36-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48684: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2005

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