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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: falcifer ammonoid zone, Lias Epsilon II/12 Member (Posidonia Shale Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Lias ("Schwarzjura") epsilon II/12 (upper part of the 'Schlacken')

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1985; reposited in the SMNS

• Discovered by Mr Norbert Adorf of SMNS in the process of preparing a crossopterygian specimen in the same slab

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 91692: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.10.2009

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