Solnhofen (Uppsala Collection): Early/Lower Tithonian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Rhamphorhynchidae
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Pterodactylus longicaudus
Münster 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri | ||||||||||
Pal Museum Uppsala 150 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bavaria |
Coordinates: | 48.9° North, 11.2° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 19.3° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Jurassic | *Local age/stage: | Early/Lower Tithonian |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 150.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,gray lithified lime mudstone | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
Geology comments: Tectonically inactive area. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Associated major elements: | all |
Disassociated major elements: | none |
Disassociated minor elements: | none |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 29012 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Labandeira, R. Butler | Enterer: | A. Spencer-Lee, R. Butler |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-03-13 07:14:15 | Last modified: | 2020-08-23 12:02:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-03-13 07:14:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
32121. | P. Wellnhofer. 1975. Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands, Teil II, Systematische Beschreibung. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 148:132-186 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |