Also known as “Labyrinthodon” ruetimeyeri holotype site

Where: Basel-Stadt, Switzerland (47.6° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: ? Plattensandstein Formation (Upper Buntsandstein Group), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "Upper Middle Buntsandstein"

•The Upper Middle Buntsandstein in southern Germany (and northern Switzerland) is represented by a large hiatus. Thus, it is more likely that the locality is in the Upper Buntsandstein, as is the Warmbach-Locality (9 km lateral distance, see coll. 85939), presumably in the Plattensandstein Fm.

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•Upper Buntsandstein is early Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, medium sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: H.-D. Sues and R. R. Reisz. 2008. Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Sclerosaurus armatus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1031-1042 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85940: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 20.01.2009