Rohracker, vineyard (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemburg, Germany (48.8° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Stubensandstein Member (Löwenstein Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "Unterer Stubensandstein" (Lower Stubensandstein)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1904; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: E. Fraas. 1913. Proterochersis, eine pleurodire Schildkröte aus dem Keuper. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 80:13-30 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138885: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Proterochersidae
"Proterochersis intermedia n. sp." = Proterochersis robusta
"Proterochersis intermedia n. sp." = Proterochersis robusta Fraas 1913 turtle