Britten, Level 2 (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Saarland, Germany (49.5° N, 6.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Middle Buntsandstein, above the Taunus quartzites. The level 2 is about 1 m above level 1, described in the collection "Britten, level 1"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: The collection might differ in its precise location from colection "Britten, level 1", but this information is not reported in ref. 9708

Primary reference: G. R. Demathieu and E. M. Mueller. 1987. L'ichnofaune de petits reptiles du Buntsandstein Moyen de Britten (Sarre). Bulletin du Service Geologique du Luxembourg 14:3-20 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36204: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 18.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

• ichnotaxa
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ichnotaxon Saarichnium aegnimaticum n.gen. n. sp.
 Eosuchia -
? Lepidosauria indet. Haeckel 1866 lepidosaur
ichnotaxon Rhynchosauroides brittensis n. sp.
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Therapsida indet. therapsid
ichnotaxon Saarichnium aegnimaticum n.gen. n. sp.