Totes Gebirge phytosaurs (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Styria, Austria (47.6° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dachsteinkalk Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• The Dachstein Limestone is of broadly Norian age (e.g. Roniewicz et al. 2007. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 147:577–594.), but the position of the phytosaur material within the formation has not yet been documented.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

• "The stratified Dachsteinkalk is interpreted as having been deposited in a shallow marine environment corresponding to a vast lagoon limited externally by coral reefs"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. Schultz, R. Seeman, G. Sverak and W. Prenner in 1982; reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1993. Phytosaurs in time and space. Paleontologia Lombardia, Nuova serie 2:39-44 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97845: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Mystriosuchus planirostris Meyer 1863 archosaur
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna: good cranial and postcranial material of several (at least three) individuals