Lücking clay pit, Sommersell: Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Germany
collected 2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Westphaliasaurus simonsensii n. gen., n. sp. Schwermann and Sander 2011
1 specimen
Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde in Münster P58091 (holotype partial skeleton)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:North Rhine-Westphalia County:Höxter
Coordinates: 51.8° North, 9.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 15.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pliensbachian Ammonoid zone: Tragophylloceras ibex
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:June 2007
Collection method comments: Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde in Münster, Germany
Metadata
Database number:119605
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-10-30 01:26:37 Last modified:2011-10-29 09:26:37
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-30 01:26:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38374. L. Schwermann and P. M. Sander. 2011. Osteologie und Phylogenie von Westphaliasaurus simonsensii: Ein neuer Plesiosauride (Sauropterygia) aus dem Unteren Jura (Pliensbachium) von Sommersell (Kreis Höxter), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 79:1-60 [R. Benson/R. Benson]