Austriadactylus type locality near Ankerschlag (Triassic of Austria)

Also known as Seefeld

Where: Tyrol, Austria (47.3° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 15.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Seefelder Schichten Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Sevatian date is based upon the conodont Mockina slovakensis, see Kozur (in Wellnhofer 2003. Geol. Soc., London, Special Publications 217: 5-22) and Moix et al. (2007. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 41:282–311).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; black, calcareous limestone

• "a marine, anoxic and partially hypersaline basin on a very shallow carbonate platform"
• "preserved on a slab of black calcareous laminites"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia, R. Wild, H. Hopf and J. Reitner. 2002. A crested rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur from the Late Triassic of Austria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):196-199 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68334: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

• only one specimen reported, remaining fauna not discussed
Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Austriadactylus cristatus n. gen. n. sp. Dalla Vecchia et al. 2002 pterosaur