Where: Niederöstereich, Austria (47.9° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 20.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Opponitzer Limestone Member (Lunz Formation), Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• Opponitzer Limestone is the uppermost member of the Lunz Formation and is dated as Tuvalian (upper Carnian) on the basis of palynomorphs (e.g. Pott et al. 2007. Palaeontology 50:1299-1318)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; black, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Handlirsch in 1905
• NHMW: Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna
Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1939. Ein primitiver Phytosaurier in der jüngeren nordost-alpinen Trias [A primitive phytosaur in the younger northeastern Alpine Triassic]. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B 1939(4):139-144 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97854: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"cf. Francosuchus trauthi n. sp." = Dolerosaurus trauthi
"cf. Francosuchus trauthi n. sp." = Dolerosaurus trauthi Huene 1939 diapsid NHMW 1905/0007/0052, fragment of rostrum (holotype)
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