Trossingen - Obere Mühle (lower) (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as ETE Locality 1558, Plateosaurus bonebed

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.1° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Löwenstein Formation (Keuper Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "untere Knochenschicht" of Knollenmergel, now considered to be the upper part of the Löwenstein Fm. (upper Norian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; poorly lithified, green, red mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: miring
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: . loose, dark red, green in parts

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Fraas, F. v. Huene, R. Seemann in 1911–1912, 1921–1923, 1932, 2007–2010; reposited in the AMNH, SMNS

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• GPIT: Paläontologischen Sammlung der Universität Tübingen

Primary reference: E. Fraas. 1913. Die neuesten Dinosaurierfunde in der schwäbischen Trias [The newest dinosaur finds in the Swabian Trias]. Naturwissenschaften 1(45):1097-1100 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22683: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plateosaurus plieningeri2
GPIT-PV-30787 (= GPIT IV)
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
? Plateosaurus sp.6 Meyer 1837 plateosaurid
Specimen 7
Plateosaurus quenstedti2 Huene 1905 plateosaurid
GPIT II = GPIT-PV-30785
Plateosaurus trossingensis n. sp. Fraas 1913 plateosaurid
SMNS 13200, complete skeleton; AMNH FARB 6810
Plateosaurus trossingensis4 Fraas 1913 plateosaurid
Specimen 2, 9, 11–13, 16–18, 24, 31, 33, 35, 39, 43, 44, 46, 47, 57–60, 62, 64; SMNH 52967, 54935, 91269, 91297, 91298, 91300, 91302, 91304, 91305, 91307–91310
Plateosaurus trossingensis4 Fraas 1913 plateosaurid
GPIT I = GPIT-PV-30784
 Saurischia -
Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum n. gen. n. sp.4 Regalado Fernández and Werneburg 2022 sauropodomorph
GPIT-PV-30787 (= GPIT IV)
 Theropoda -
Liliensternus sp.5 Welles 1984 neotheropod
Tooth
 Pseudosuchia -
Aetosauria indet.3 Lydekker 1889 aetosaur
SMNS 91265, two right cervical paramedian osteoderms. SMNS 91264, isolated mid-caudal paramedian osteoderm
 Testudinata -
"Proganochelys quenstedti" = Proganochelys quenstedtii1
"Proganochelys quenstedti" = Proganochelys quenstedtii1 Baur 1887 turtle
SMNS 16980, complete skull and nearly complete postcranial skeleton. SMNS 17203, postcranium. SMNS 17204, postcranium