Where: Upper Silesia, Poland (50.5° N, 18.9° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 24.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Muschelkalk Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• "lowermost Muschelkalk of Żyglin quarry (the lowermost Anisian)" (Surmik, 2016)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Surmik. 2016. Hemilopas mentzeli, an enigmatic marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of Poland revisited. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen 282(2):209-223 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195613: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 14.08.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hemilopas mentzeli Meyer 1847 diapsid Neotype WNoZ/s/7/240, right mandibular ramus with teeth, three further partial jaws
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