Vineyards south of Odernheim am Glan (Permian of Germany)

Also known as Odernheimer Kalkbank, M8)

Where: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (49.8° N, 7.7° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation, Autunian (298.9 - 283.5 Ma)

• Meisenheim Formation (M6-M10), Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany

•Obernheimer Kalkbank ("limestone bank") M8

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. M. B. Bulman and W. F. Whittard. 1926. On Branchiosaurus and allied genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1926:533-579 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179127: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 31.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Micromelerpetidae
"Branchiosaurus credneri n. gen. n. sp." = Micromelerpeton credneri
"Branchiosaurus credneri n. gen. n. sp." = Micromelerpeton credneri Bulman and Whittard 1926 tetrapod
UMZC T.16 (formerly DMSW B.40; Watson, 1963) (Lectotype, almost complete skeleton)