Hoheneck (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.9° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lettenkeuper Member (Erfurt Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Hohenecker Kalk of the Upper Lettenkeuper; now formally the Erfurt Formation of the Lower Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296). This locality is Longobardian (late Ladinian) in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; limestone

• "this formation has been interpreted as representing an estuarine environment, supported by the frequent succession of very shallow marine, limnic/brackish swamp, and deltaic deposits" (Schoch 2006: JVP 26, 29)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. v. Meyer and T. Plieninger. 1844. Beiträge zur Paläontologie Württemberg’s, enthaltend die Fossilen Wirbelthierreste aus den Triasgebilden mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf die Labyrinthodonten des Keupers [Contributions to the Paleontology of Württemberg, Including the Fossil Vertebrate Remains from the Triassic Formations with Special Regard to the Labyrinthodonts of the Keupers] 1-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106357: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano and Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus guilielmi n. sp. Meyer and Plieninger 1844 lungfish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Mastodonsaurus giganteus5 Jaeger 1828 tetrapod
SMNS 740, palate. SMNS 4194, skull roof
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
? Zanclodon crenatus2 Plieninger 1846 archosauromorph
 Nothosauria - Simosauridae
"Simosaurus guilielmi n. sp." = Simosaurus gaillardoti3
"Simosaurus guilielmi n. sp." = Simosaurus gaillardoti3 Meyer and Plieninger 1842 nothosaur
SMNS 16700 (holotype skull)
 Placodontia - Placochelyidae
Psephosaurus suevicus n. gen. n. sp.1
Psephosaurus suevicus n. gen. n. sp.1 Fraas 1896 placodont
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus sp.3 Münster 1834 diapsid
BMNH 38669 (right clavicle and scapula from Lettenkeuper; Rieppel 1994, fig. 53A)
Nothosaurus mirabilis4 Münster 1834 diapsid
BSP 1952 XV 108 (mandible); SMNS uncatalogued (snout fragment; Fraas 1896, p. 12, as Nothosaurus cuvieri); SMNS 17291 (snout fragment)