Also known as Mohring Brick Quarry
Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.7° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 18.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Opalinuston Formation, Early/Lower Aalenian (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)
• 'basalmost Opalinuston'
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; massive, nodular, conglomeratic claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1970s
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Natural History exhibition of the Städtisches Museum Göppingen
Primary reference: E. E. Maxwell, M. S. Fernández, and R. R. Schoch. 2012. First diagnostic marine reptile remains from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic): a new ichthyosaur from southwestern Germany. PLoS ONE 7(8):e41692 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132115: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 08.08.2012, edited by Emma Dunne
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Opisuchus meieri n. gen. n. sp.
Opisuchus meieri n. gen. n. sp. Aiglstorfer et al. 2019 marine crocodile Holotype: SMNS 91268, cranium with the mandible semi-articulated, both missing the anterior part, including some elements of the cervical column.
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