Ohmden, epsilon II/3c, SMNS pterosaur (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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: tenuicostatum ammonoid zone, Lias Epsilon II/3c Member (Posidonia Shale Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Lias ("Schwarzjura") epsilon II/3c (on the boundary with level II/4)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Hauff in 1942; reposited in the SMNS

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 91699: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Campylognathoididae
Campylognathoides liasicus Quendtedt 1858 pterosaur
SMNS 18879, nearly complete skeleton