Where: Germany (48.9° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 11.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grünsandstein Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in <1855
Primary reference: A. v. Wagner. 1853. Beschreibung einer fossilen Schildkröte und etlicher anderer Reptilien-Ueberreste aus den lithographischen Schiefern und dem Grünsandstein. Abhandlungen der Mathemat.-Physikalischen Classe de Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 7:241-264 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138006: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 02.01.2013, edited by Philip Mannion
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Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Liodon anceps" = Leiodon anceps, Liodon paradoxus
"Liodon anceps" = Leiodon anceps Owen 1841 mosasaur
Liodon paradoxus mosasaur | |
Helochelys danubina n. gen. n. sp.
Helochelys danubina n. gen. n. sp. von Meyer 1854 turtle |