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: tenuicostatum ammonoid zone, Lias Epsilon II/3 Member (Posidonia Shale Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• Lias ("Schwarzjura") epsilon II/3 (Fleins)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Wild in 1978; reposited in the SMNS
• Discovered by R. Wild in a slab that had been quarried and sawn through. Prepared by Nobert Adorf at SMNS in 1980-81
Primary reference: K. Padian. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Campylognathoides Strand, 1928. Special Papers in Palaeontology 80:65-107 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91696: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Campylognathoides zitteli Plieninger 1894 pterosaur SMNS 51100, scattered bones of the skull and lower jaws, and teeth; five cervical and eight dorsal vertebrae; complete left and right wings excepting some carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges; partial right ilium; right tibia-fibula; several metatarsals and phalanges of the foot
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