Rygol Quarry, Painten: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Germany
collected by R. Albersdörfer 1985–

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Pförringer 2000 1 individual
tridactyl trackway with claw marks
Sciurumimus albersdoerferi n. gen., n. sp. Rauhut et al. 2012
1 individual
BMMS BK 11 (5 measurements)
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Metriorhynchinae indet. Buchy 2008
Herrera et al. 2021
Cricosaurus sp. Wagner 1858
Andrade et al. 2010 1 specimen
BMM uncategorized
Cricosaurus albersdoerferi n. sp. Sachs et al. 2021
Sachs et al. 2021
Holotype: BMMS-BK 1-2, almost complete articulated skeleton
Dakosaurus maximus (Plieninger 1846)
Young et al. 2012 1 specimen
SMNS 82043: right mandibular ramus in lithographic limestone, from Painten, Bayern, Germany
Reptilia
Alligatorium franconicum n. sp. Ammon 1906
Wellnhofer 1971 1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Neosuchia
Alligatorium paintenense n. sp. Kuhn 1961
Wellnhofer 1971
nomen dubium belonging to Neosuchia
Eurysternum wagleri Meyer 1839
Karl et al. 2012 1 specimen
One adult specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bayern
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 11.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.3° North, 19.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: Hybonoticeras beckeri
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Weißjura Formation:Torleite Member:Arnstorf
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: equivalent to upper part of Rögling Formation, Beckeri zone, Ulmense subzone, rebouletianum horizon

Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Thin-bedded to laminated micritic limestones Sachs et al. 2021: Its lithology represents a carbonate rock succession, dominated by lithographic as well as thin siliceous limestones (‘Plattensilex’). The formation ranges from the upper Aulacostephanus pseudomutabilis to the upper Hybonoticeras beckeri Tethyan ammonite Zones (Niebuhr and Pürner, 2014). The matrix BMMS-BK 1-2 is embedded in is a white-coloured thin and fine-laminated siliceous limestone.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Sachs et al. 2021: The rocks of the Arnstorf Member were deposited in the ‘Painten lagoon’ of the Solnhofen archipelago, and the high abundance of land plants suggests it was a near-shore environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,adpression,trace,soft parts
Lagerst�tten type:conservation
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Fragmentation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:R. Albersdörfer Collection dates:1985–
Collection method comments: Sachs et al. 2021: The specimen is on display at the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum in Solnhofen (Germany) and derives from the Upper Jurassic Torleite Formation. It was found in 2002 by Raimund Albersdörfer in the Rygol quarry in Painten, Bavaria (Southern Germany).
Metadata
Database number:130048
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, R. Benson Enterer:M. Carrano, G. Varnham, R. Benson, J. Tennant
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-04 06:30:24 Last modified:2022-01-11 07:37:41
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-04 06:30:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42198. O. W. M. Rauhut, C. Foth, H. Tischlinger and M. A. Norell. 2012. Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 29:11746-11751 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]

Secondary references:

43156 M. B. Andrade, M. T. Young, J. B. Desojo and S. L. Brusatte. 2010. The evolution of extreme hypercarnivory in Metriorhynchidae (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) based on evidence from microscopic denticle morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1451-1465 [M. Young/M. Young]
43836 A. D. Buscalioni and J. L. Sanz. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships of the Atoposauridae (Archosauria, Crocodylomoprha). Historical Biology 1:233-250 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
79044 Y. Herrera, M. Aiglstorfer, and M. Bronzati. 2021. A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia: Crocodylomorpha) from southern Germany: the first three-dimensionally preserved Cricosaurus skull from the Solnhofen Archipelago. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19(2):145-167 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
46818 H.-V. Karl, G. Tichy, and D. Valdisberri. 2012. Sontiochelys cretacea Stache, 1905 and new description of the families Eurysternidae Dollo, 1886 and Thalassemydidae Rutimeyer, 1873 (Testudines: Cryptodira). Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 48(1):45-76 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Wagner]
78828 K. Pförringer. 2000. Eine Tierfährte im Malm von Painten bei Regensburg [An animal track in the Malm of Painten near Regensburg]. Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern und angrenzende Gebiete 50(1-2):83-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79045 S. Sachs, M. T. Young, P. Abel and H. Mallison. 2021. A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchidae) based upon a remarkably well-preserved skeleton from the Upper Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica 24(2):a24 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]
42522 P. Wellnhofer. 1971. Die Atoposauridae (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Bayerns. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 138(5-6):133-165 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
43071 M. T. Young, S. L. Brusatte, M. B. Andrade, J. B. Desojo, B. L. Beatty, L. Steel, M. S. Fernández, M. Sakamoto, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and R. R. Schoch. 2012. The cranial osteology and feeding ecology of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe. PLoS ONE 7(9):e44985 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Young]