Kammerberg near Manebach (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (48.4° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manebach Formation, Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Pennsylvanian-Permian Boundary. Stratigraphically above the Ilmenau Formation, which was recently dated 299.3 ± 0.3 Ma by U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS (Lützner et al. 2021), indicating an Asselian age.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180761: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 31.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops sp.2 Cope 1877 tetrapod
(Werneburg, 1987b) NHMS-WP specimen (large snout fragments)
Onchiodon thuringiensis n. sp. Werneburg 2008 tetrapod
NHM-WP 2140a-z (Holotype: complete skull (length 28.5cm) and partial postcranial skeleton)
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida -
? Haptodus sp.1 Gaudry 1886 synapsid
(Werneburg 1999) NHMS‐WP 2195