Also known as Trachelosaurus
Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (51.8° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 19.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chirotherium Sandstone Member (Solling Formation), Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Chirotherium Sandstone is equivalent to the uppermost part of the Solling Formation, which is dated as earliest Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, medium, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by O. Merkel
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: F. Broili and E. Fischer. 1917. Trachelosaurus fischeri nov. gen. nov. sp. Ein neuer Saurier aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin 37(1):359-414 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134498: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.10.2012, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lycopodiopsida | |
Pleuromeia sternbergii Corda 1852 clubmoss | |
Reptilia | |
Trachelosaurus fischeri n. gen. n. sp.
Trachelosaurus fischeri n. gen. n. sp. Broili and Fischer 1917 squamates Disarticulated partial skeleton, in collection of Geologisches Institut der Universität Halle
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