"Gruhalde" clay quarry, Frick (upper saurian level) (Triassic of Switzerland)

Also known as Clay pit Gruhalde of the Tonwerke Keller AG, Frick

Where: Aargau, Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gruhalde Member (Klettgau Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• latest Norian; uppermost part of member, 1 m below Tr/J boundary (but Rhaetian absent at site)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. Zahner and W. Brinkmann. 2019. A Triassic averostran-line theropod from Switzerland and the early evolution of dinosaurs. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:1146-1152 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203217: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 06.08.2019, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
large teeth - either theropod or pseudosuchian
 Theropoda -
Notatesseraeraptor frickensis n. gen. n. sp. Zahner and Brinkmann 2019 neotheropod
SMF 06-1 and 09-2:
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet. Huene 1932 sauropodomorph
 Eosuchia - Clevosauridae
Clevosaurus sp. Swinton 1939 lepidosaur
maxilla, stomach contents of Notatesseraeraptor