Also known as Gemeindeburg near Niederkirchen

Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49.6° N, 7.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.0° N, 19.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation (Rotliegend Group), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• "Biostratigraphically, the find can be attributed to Boy's Leptorophus humbergensis-Apateon caducus association. This association is part of the Apateon caducus group and has an upper 'Autunian' age. This corresponds to the lower Sakmarian of international stratigraphy"

•The Jeckenbach Subformation, however, is of Asselian age according to "Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; gray, silty shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. L. Carroll. 1991. Batropetes from the Lower Permian of Europe - a Microsaur, not a Reptile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(2):229-242 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85451: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.12.2008, edited by Emma Dunne

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