Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.1° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 18.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ceratites enodis + Ceratites sublaevigatus ammonoid zone, Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Upper Muschelkalk (mo2; zones of Ceratites enodis and Ceratites sublaevigatus), lower Ladinian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SMNS
Collection methods: mechanical, 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 138087: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Placodus sp.1 Agassiz 1833 placodont SMNS 59826 (isolated dorsal centrum; Rieppel 1994, fig. 48c); SMNS 59822 (Rieppel 1994, fig. 53c)
Placodus gigas2 Agassiz 1833 placodont BPS 1968 I 75 (skull; Broili 1912, platr 14, figs 1-4); BSP 1968 I 76 and SMNS uncatalogued, coll. M. Wild #98 (mandibles); SMNS 59827 and smns uncatalogued, coll. M. Wild #1365 (humeri)
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Nothosaurus sp. Münster 1834 diapsid SMNS 59075, 59076; partial skulls; plus SMNS 59817 (Rieppel 1994, fig. 46)
Nothosaurus mirabilis3 Münster 1834 diapsid SMNS uncatalogued, coll. M. Wild no. 2074 and 564 (mandibles);
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