Hauff Quarry IX, Holzmaden, epsilon II/6 (Jurassic of Germany)

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: Harpoceras falciferum ammonoid zone, Lias Epsilon II/6 Member (Posidonia Shale Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Lias ("Schwarzjura") epsilon II/6 (Schieferklotz). Hauff Quarry IX

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Hauff Sr in 1901

• Specimen stolen and currently lost to science. Formerly in the collection of Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Tübingen

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 91595: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.10.2009, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Rhamphorhynchidae
Dorygnathus banthensis Theodori 1831 pterosaur
GPIT specimen lost, most of both forelimbs and one hindlimb, somewhat scattered
 Ichthyosauria -
Stenopterygius promegacephalus ichthyosaur
Lectotype, syntype
Stenopterygius megacephalus von Huene 1922 ichthyosaur
Lectotype
Stenopterygius cuneiceps McGowan 1979 ichthyosaur
GPIT 1491/12, SMNS 7402
Stenopterygius hauffianus von Huene 1922 ichthyosaur
GPIT 1491/1, SMNS 15033
Stenopterygius triscissus n. sp. Quenstedt 1856 ichthyosaur
Holotype: GPIT 12/0224-2
Stenopterygius quadriscissus Quenstedt 1858 ichthyosaur
Paralectotype: GPIT 1491/9