Stryczowice tracksite (Triassic of Poland)

Where: Swietoryzskie, Poland (50.9° N, 21.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 26.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Labyrinthodontidae Beds Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• "a composite 5–6 m section of “Labyrinthodontidae Beds”...This unit is correlated to the Middle Buntsandstein of the Germanic Basin based on palynomorphs and conchostracans and lithostratigraphic correlation"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; brown, red, yellow sandstone and claystone

• "channels and floodplains of a moderately to weakly braided river system"
• "These beds represent a sequence of red to reddish-brown and yellowish sandstones and mudstones with claystone intercalations."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. L. Brusatte, G. Niedzwiedzki, and R. J. Butler. 2011. Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 278(1708):1107-1113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175800: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauromorpha -
Prorotodactylus sp. Ptaszynski 2000 ornithodiran
MPT.P 345.1–5