Also known as Iba, Kupferschiefer, Copper Shale, Richelsdorfer Gebirge, Richelsdorf Mountains
Where: Hesse, Germany (51.0° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 22.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Kupferschiefer Member (Werra Formation), Zechstein (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)
• The Kupferschiefer (T1) is the basalmost unit of the Werra Formation (Z1), the latter being the basalmost formation of the Zechstein Series (Uppermost Permian of Central Europe).
•The Parasaurus specimen is said to come from the alpha sequence ("feine Letten") of the Kupferschiefer (Sues & Munk, 1996, Paläont. Z. 67 (1/2), p. 169-176)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, brown claystone
•"Sedimentation rates during Kupferschiefer deposition were low (5 mm kyr)1; Füchtbauer, 1968). The Kupferschiefer is thus interpreted as a condensed section, which formed during maximum flooding (Ross & Ross, 1995; Strohmenger et al., 1996a)." (Becker & Bechstädt, 2006)
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Munk, among others in 1975
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),
Primary reference: G. Schaumberg. 1976. Zwei Reptilneufunde (Weigeltisaurus KUHN [?], Lepidosauria [?], Reptilia) aus dem Kupferschiefer von Richelsdorf (Perm, Hessen). Philippia 3(1):3-8 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85489: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 02.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Parasaurus geinitzi von Meyer 1857 parareptile S 163; specimen in the collection of the Naturkundemuseum in Kassel; provenance uncertain
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