Sacrau, near Goglin (Triassic of Poland)

Also known as Zakrzów

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gogolin Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lower Muschelkalk (Lower Gogolin Beds)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1997. Revision of the sauropterygian reptile genus Cymatosaurus v. Fritsch, 1894, and the relationships of Germanosaurus Nopcsa, 1928, from the Middle Triassic of Europe. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 36:1-36 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138068: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.01.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Germanosaurus latissimus n. sp. Gürich 1891 diapsid
Lost holotype specimen
 Eosauropterygia -
Cymatosaurus sp.1 Fritsch 1894 diapsid
BGR uncatalogued, partial skull (Rieppel 1994, figure 39)
Cymatosaurus latifrons Gürich 1884 diapsid
SMNS 10977, complete but poorly preserved skull
Proneusticosaurus madelungi n. sp.2 Volz 1902 diapsid
Semi-articulated postcranial skeleton
 Diapsida - Saurosphargidae
Hemilopas mentzeli2 Meyer 1847 diapsid
IZ WU (uncatalogued), dentary fragment