Where: Baden-Württenburg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 17.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: falcifer ammonoid zone, Lias Epsilon II/4 Member (Posidonia Shale Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• Lias ("Schwarzjura") epsilon II/4 (Unteren Schiefer). Hauff Quarry IX
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Hauff Sr in 1905; reposited in the MfN
• Specimen collected by B. Hauff Sr in 1905. Sold to the Humboldt Museum für Naturkunde for 2500 Goldmarks.
Primary reference: K. Padian. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori, 1830). Special Papers in Palaeontology 80:1-64 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91560: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 02.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dorygnathus banthensis Theodori 1831 pterosaur MB 1905.15, nearly complete articulated postcranial skeleton in dorsal view, missing the skull, the first two cervical vertebrae, and all but the first five caudals; the specimen number MB 1972.35 has also been associated with this specimen
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