Also known as Ichthyosaur locality

Where: Switzerland (47.9° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rietheim Member (Staffelegg Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Carol Sporli in 1981

Primary reference: A. G. Reisdorf, M. W. Maisch, and A. Wetzel. 2011. First record of the leptonectid ichthyosaur Eurhinosaurus longirostris from the Early Jurassic of Switzerland and its stratigraphic framework. Swiss Journal of Geoscience 104:211-224 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142710: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 15.04.2013

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