Where: Würtemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 18.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Posidonia Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: F. -J. Pictet. 1853. Traité de Paléontologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Fossiles Considérés dans Leurs Rapports Zoologiques et Géologiques [Treatise of Paleontology or the Natural History of Fossil Animals Considered in their Zoological and Geological Relationships] 1:xiv-584 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132856: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mystriosaurus longipes n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis, "Mystriosaurus tiedmanni n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis
"Mystriosaurus longipes n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile Teylers Museum, Haarlem 2742, fairly complete skeleton first reported by Bronn 1841
"Mystriosaurus tiedmanni n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile Teylers Museum, Haarlem 2743, almost complete skeleton first reported by Bronn 1841
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