Ohmden, GPIT specimen, epsilon III: Early/Lower Toarcian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Leptopterygius disinteger n. sp.
Sander 2000
synonym of Leptonectes
Precise locality unknown, specimen details not reported
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Ohmdenia multidentata n. gen., n. sp. Hauff 1953
1 specimen
GPIT 1017/1 holotype partial skeleton
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württenburg
Coordinates: 48.6° North, 9.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 17.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Toarcian Ammonoid zone: Hildoceras bifrons
Age range of interval:183.00000 - 182.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Posidonia Shale Member:Lias Epsilon III
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 150-200 mm above the boundary between the epsilon II and epsilon II-12 stratigraphic divisions
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: GPIT: Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Tübingen
Metadata
Database number:132361
Authorizer:R. Benson, P. Mannion Enterer:R. Benson, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-15 02:46:22 Last modified:2022-09-28 13:51:42
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-15 02:46:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42635. M. Friedman. 2012. Parallel evolutionary trajectories underlie the origin of giant suspension-feeding whales and bony fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:944-951 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

46676 P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]