Where: Baden-Württemburg, Germany (49.4° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 16.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Upper Muschelkalk, upper layers
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SMNS
Collection methods: quarrying, acetic,
Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1994. The braincases of Simosaurus and Nothosaurus: monophyly of the Nothosauridae (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):9-23 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138083: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pachypleurosauroidea indet.1 Huene 1956 diapsid MB uncatalogued (Rieppel 1994, fig. 49 of a dorsal centrum from the specimen)
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Nothosaurus giganteus2 Münster 1834 diapsid SMNS 17438 (vertebra, upper Muschelkalk [Trochitenkalk], Stengelberg, Neidenfels near Crailsheim
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Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer and Plieninger 1842 nothosaur SMNS 10360: the skull was originally described by Jaekel (1905), Huene (1952), Romer (1956), Kuhn-Schnyder (1961), Rieppel (1989)
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