Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51.8° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 15.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tragophylloceras ibex ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2007
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde in Münster, Germany
Primary reference: L. Schwermann and P. M. Sander. 2011. Osteologie und Phylogenie von Westphaliasaurus simonsensii: Ein neuer Plesiosauride (Sauropterygia) aus dem Unteren Jura (Pliensbachium) von Sommersell (Kreis Höxter), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 79:1-60 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119605: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 30.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Westphaliasaurus simonsensii n. gen. n. sp.
Westphaliasaurus simonsensii n. gen. n. sp. Schwermann and Sander 2011 plesiosaur Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde in Münster P58091 (holotype partial skeleton)
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