Pochwerksgrund (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.6° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Goldlauterer Member (Goldlauterer Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• In German: Unteres Goldlauterer Schichten

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny. After a relief reactivation, red-brown alluvial fan conglomerates and fluvial sandstones grade into brownish to greenish fluvio-lacustrine and very finely laminated (varved) black shales of the depocentres intercalated by basin-wide tuff marker-beds." Roscher & Schneider, 2006

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 180764: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 31.07.2016, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Apateon flagrifer Whittard 1930 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Paramblypteriformes -
Amblypterus arcuatus Egerton 1850
NHMUK P.3461 (holotype)