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: Lias Epsilon Member (Posidonia Shale Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Münster in 1842
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Originally in the Munich Museum, destroyed in 1944
Primary reference: F. Westphal. 1962. Die Krokodilier des Deutschen und Englischen Oberen Lias [The crocodiles of the German and English Upper Lias]. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 118(1-3):23-118 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132857: 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 muensteri n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis, "Mystriosaurus canalifer n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis
"Mystriosaurus muensteri n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile Almost complete skeleotn originally in the Munich Museum, destroyed in 1944; first reported by Giebel 1847
"Mystriosaurus canalifer n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile Humboldt Museum, Berlin specimen, destroyed in 1944: snout fragment first reported by Münster 1843
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