Where: Hessen, Germany (49.9° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messel Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Lower middle Eocene, Lower Geiseltalium

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crater lake; lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the SMF

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Stritzke. 1983. Saniwa feisti n. sp., ein Varanide (Lacertilia, Reptilia) aus dem Mittel-Eozän von Messel bei Darmstadt. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 64(5/6):497-508 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207131: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 28.12.2019

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