Also known as Kelheim

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 20.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Reisdorf & Wuttke: "Because of its uncertain origin, neither its biostratigraphical age nor its lithostratigraphic classification is considered certain (Fig. 2). If it originated in Jachenhausen, then it can be considered to be from the Painten Formation (Zandt Member; cf. Zeiss 1977), and thus of an assumed Early Tithonian age (Rueppellianus Zone, Riedense or Early Rueppellianus Subzone) (G. Schweigert, personal communication 2011). On the other hand, if it came from the Kelheim area, then it is either from the lithostratigraphic equivalent of the uppermost Kimmeridgian of the Kapfelberg locality, or from the Lower Tithonian plattenkalks of the Goldberg locality (cf. Röper 2005a; Schweigert 2007). Since Kapfelberg has delivered a great quantity of reptile finds, it is the more probable locality (cf. Abel 1922; Kemp 2001). Whatever the case, both of these Plattenkalk deposits are considered part of the Painten Formation (G. Schweigert, personal communication 2011)."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, replaced with calcite

Collected by Oberndorfer in the 1850s

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. v. Meyer. 1839. Zu meiner nun vor fast zehn Jahren gemachten und unausgesetzt verfolgten Entdeckung... [On my constantly pursued discovery, now made almost ten years ago...]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrfaktenkunde 1839:76-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57682: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.12.2005, edited by Richard Butler, Roger Benson, Evangelos Vlachos, Terri Cleary and Jonathan Tennant

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