Painten, near Kelheim (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.0° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Painten Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Ulmense Subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Fabre. 1981. Les rhynchocephales et les pterosauriens a crete parietale du Kimeridgien superieur-Berriasien d'Europe occidentale: le gisement de Canjuers (Var-France) et ses abords. 1-188 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181424: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 14.09.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosuchia - Sphenodontidae
Leptosaurus pulchellus n. sp. Zittel 1887 lepidosaur
IPHG no. 1887 VI 1 (holotype), complete skeleton; No. 1887 VI 2, posterior portion of skeleton; No. 1911 I 34, partial skeleton