Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 17.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Harpoceras falciferum ammonoid zone, Posidonia Shale Formation, Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Lias Epsilon II4 (Unterer Schiefer)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Hauff in 1922

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "In spring 1923, the Geological Institute in Tübingen obtained an elongated Plesiosaurierskelett... the skeleton was found in summer 1922 in Quarry 29, Ohmden" (translated from von Huene 1923, p.3)

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1923. Ein neuer Plesiosaurier aus dem oberen Lias Württembergs. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 79:3-23 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90421: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2009, edited by Roger Benson

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