Where: Germany (49.3° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 19.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: atavus ammonoid zone, Trochitenkalk Formation (Muschelkalk Group), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Muschelkalk, Trochitenbank 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: M. Urlichs and W. Kurzweil. 1997. Erstnachweis von Flexoptychites (Ammonoidea) aus dem Oberen Muschelkalk (Mitteltrias) Nordwürttembergs. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 253:1-8 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139767: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.02.2013

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