Jeckenbach, near Meisenheim (Permian of Germany)

Where: Rhineland-Palatine, Germany (49.7° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meisenheim Formation (Rotliegend Group), Autunian (298.9 - 283.5 Ma)

• Jecken- bach Bank (M6), Rotliegend

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: MNHM (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)

Primary reference: S. Glienke. 2015. Two new species of the genus Batropetes (Tetrapoda, Lepospondyli) from the Central European Rotliegend (basal Permian) in Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(2):1-27 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178736: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.05.2016, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Apateon caducus3, Apateon pedestris3, "Branchiosaurus humbergensis" = Melanerpeton humbergense3
Apateon caducus3 Ammon 1889 tetrapod
GPIM specimen(s?) (Boy 1978)
Apateon pedestris3 von Meyer 1840 tetrapod
PIM material
"Branchiosaurus humbergensis" = Melanerpeton humbergense3 Boy 1978 tetrapod
GPIM-N 832 (Holotype: partial skeleton)
 Temnospondyli -
Sclerocephalus haeuseri2 Goldfuss 1847 tetrapod
(Boy, 1972, 1988, PIM material)
Osteichthyes
 Recumbirostra - Brachystelechidae
Batropetes palatinus Glienke 2015 amniote
MNHM PW 2003/51-LS (Paratype, completely preserved in dorsal view)
 Paramblypteriformes -
Paramblypterus gelberti1 Goldfuss 1847