Painten pterosaurs: Late Kimmeridgian, Germany
collected 2011
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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Pterodactyloidea indet.
(Plieninger 1901)
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1 individual | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bayern |
| Coordinates: | 49.0° North, 11.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 24.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 152.21 - 149.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Painten | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ulmense Subzone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Lagerst�tten type: | conservation |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2011 |
| Collection method comments: Discovered during scientific excavations by a private research institute in 2011 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 154937 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-03-21 05:35:20 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-03-21 05:35:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50470. | H. Tischlinger and E. Frey. 2013. A new pterosaur with mosaic characters of basal and pterodactyloid pterosauria from the Upper Kimmeridgian of Painten (Upper Palatinate, Germany). Archaeopteryx 31:1-13 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant] |