Where: Bayern, Germany (48.9° N, 11.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 32.1° N, 23.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hybonoticeras hybonotum ammonoid zone, Arnstorf Member (Torleite Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (152.2 - 149.2 Ma)
• "Late Jurassic, uppermost Kimmeridgian, Hybonotum zone, Ulmense subzone, Rebouletianum horizon" - Bever and Norell 2017
•Villa et al. 2021: Arnstorf Mb. of the Torleite Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 2015; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: G. S. Bever and M. A. Norell. 2017. A new rhynchocephalian (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Solnhofen (Germany) and the origin of the marine Pleurosauridae. Royal Society Open Science 4:170570 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189818: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 15.11.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Vadasaurus herzogi n. gen. n. sp.
Vadasaurus herzogi n. gen. n. sp. Bever and Norell 2017 rhynchocephalian AMNH FARB 32768, nearly complete and largely articulated skeleton
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