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

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