Where: Bayern, Germany (49.5° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 11.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Feuerletten Member (Trossingen Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Material probably collected from the "Plateosaurus-Konglomerat", part of the Feuerletten (equivalent to the Trossingen Formation), upper Middle Keuper, although listed (probably in error) by von Huene as from the "Semionotus-Sandstein" (=Burgsandstein = Löwenstein Formation) (see Moser 2003).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. Wunder, Heller in 1800s, 1922
• NHGN: Naturhistorisches Gesellschaft Nürnberg
•UEN: Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europäischen Triasformation mit berücksichtigung der Ausseuropäischen vorkommnisse [The dinosaurs of the European Triassic formations with consideration of occurrences outside Europe]. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen Suppl. 1(1):1-419 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97819: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 31.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plateosauridae indet. Marsh 1895 plateosaurid NHGN postcranial material (vertebrae, tibia, partial fibula), all destroyed during WW2; UEN, bone fragment in two pieces
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