ammonites
Heslach quarries, Stuttgart, "Heslacher Wand" (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (48.8° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Stubensandstein Member (Löwenstein Formation), Norian (221.5 - 205.6 Ma)

• Middle Keuper; originally Middle Stubensandstein

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kapff in 1860 onwards; reposited in the BMNH, SMNS

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• GPIT: Paläontologische Sammlung der Universität Tübingen

Primary reference: H. v. Meyer. 1861. Reptilien aus dem Stubensandstein des oberen Keupers. Palaeontographica 7:253-346 [R. Butler/R. Butler] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47785: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.03.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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