Where: Baselland, Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Röschenz Member (Vellerat Formation), Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• found in loose gravel on cave floor, presumed to derive from limestone substrate of cave

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• discovered by speleologists

Primary reference: C. A. Meyer and A. P. Hunt. 1998. The first stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1998(3):141-145 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55219: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 29.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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