Also known as Winterswijkse Steen- en Kalkgroeve

Where: Gelderland, Netherlands (52.0° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Wellenkalk layer 9 Member (Vossenveld Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "middle Lower Muschelkalk"

•Original entry for Chronostratigraphy was >>Ladinian<<. Originally entered formation name was >>Muschelkalk<<. Corrections made are according to Klein & Albers (2009). (TL)

•"Lower Anisian, lowermost Middle Triassic" according to Albers & Rieppel (2003)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray, blue limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected in >1935

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Near the town of Winterswijk, in the mid-eastern part of The Netherlands, the Muschelkalk is exposed in a relatively small area where Triassic limestone has been commercially exploited since 1935.

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•TW, Twentse Welle Museum, Enschede, the Netherlands, collection

Primary reference: G. R. Demathieu and H. W. Oosterink. 1983. Die wirbeltier-ichnofauna aus dem unteren Muschelkalk von Winterswijk. Staringia 7(1):1-51 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96875: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 07.07.2010, edited by Roger Benson, Matthew Carrano, Torsten Liebrecht and Bethany Allen

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