Where: Styria, Austria (47.6° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 17.6° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dachsteinkalk Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• The Dachstein Limestone is of broadly Norian age (e.g. Roniewicz et al. 2007. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 147:577–594.), but the position of the phytosaur material within the formation has not yet been documented.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by O. Schultz, R. Seeman, G. Sverak and W. Prenner in 1982; reposited in the NHMW
Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1993. Phytosaurs in time and space. Paleontologia Lombardia, Nuova serie 2:39-44 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97845: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mystriosuchus planirostris Meyer 1863 archosaur Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna: good cranial and postcranial material of several (at least three) individuals
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