Where: Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Amaltheus margaritatus ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• early Late Pliensbachian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and A. G. Reisdorf. 2006. Evidence for the longest stratigraphic range of a post-Triassic Ichthyosaur: a Leptonectes tenuirostris from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of Switzerland. Geobios 39:491-505 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90422: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2009

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