Where: Baden-Würtemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 18.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Posidonia Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: F. Westphal. 1961. Zu Systematik der deutschen und englischen Lias-Krokodilier [The systemarics of the German and English Lias crocodiles]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 113(2):207-218 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132802: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 28.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Platysuchus multiscrobiculatus n. gen. n. sp.
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Pelagosaurus typus Bronn 1841 marine crocodile SMF R469 (skull); Leiden, Rijks Geologisch-Mineralogisch Museum St. 18344 (skull); SMNS 17758 (skull)
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