Munsterappel (Carboniferous to of Germany)

Also known as Münsterappel

Where: Rhineland-Palatine, Germany (49.8° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 18.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation, Gzhelian to Gzhelian (303.7 - 295.5 Ma)

• Possibly Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) but Kerp et al. 1990 think Asselian-Sakmarian age may be more correct. Bed is assignable to the upper sub-unit of the Lauterecken-Odernheim Schichten (L-0 10) subunit of Boy and Fichter 1982.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; brown, gray sandstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180798: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Apateon pedestris n. gen. n. sp.
Apateon pedestris n. gen. n. sp. von Meyer 1840 tetrapod
PIM-N 919 (Neotype: almost complete skeleton in dorsal aspect (Boy, 1986). The lost type was figured by Meyer (1858, pl. 11, Fig. 1))