Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.7° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 18.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Opalinuston Formation, Opalinum (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Gründel, A. Nützel, and C. Schulbert. 2009. Toarctocera (Gastropoda, Aporrhaidae): a new genus from the Jurassic (Toarcian/Aalenian) of south Germany and the early evolutionary history of the family Aporrhaidae. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:533-543 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92960: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2009

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