Żyglin Quarry (Triassic of Poland)

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
 Diapsida - Saurosphargidae
Hemilopas mentzeli Meyer 1847 diapsid
Neotype WNoZ/s/7/240, right mandibular ramus with teeth, three further partial jaws