Where: Bayern, Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.1° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Benkersandstein Formation (Keuper Group), Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Benker Sandstone is equivalent to the Lower Gipskeuper of the Middle Keuper and thus to the Grabfeld/Benk formations of late Ladinian to early Carnian age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

• UMO: Oberfränkisches Erdgeschichtliches Museum, Bayreuth

Primary reference: G. Münster. 1836. Communications addressed to Professor Bronn. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1836:580-581 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97853: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.09.2010

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