Hanweiler: Carnian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Metoposauridae
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Metoposaurus diagnosticus
(Meyer 1842)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| SMNS 5143, incomplete articulated skeleton. Represents the subspecies Metoposaurus diagnosticus diagnosticus | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Baden-Württemberg | County: | Stuttgart |
| Coordinates: | 48.9° North, 9.4° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.1° North, 15.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 356 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Carnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Carnian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Keuper | Formation: | Stuttgart | Member: | Schilfsandstein |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Collected from the "Schilfsandstein", now formally the Stuttgart Formation of the lower Middle Keuper of late early Carnian age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SMNS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 106458 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-03-18 02:16:44 | Last modified: | 2018-02-20 15:57:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-18 02:16:44 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27868. | T. Sulej. 2002. Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(3):535-546 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 44535 | M. J. Benton and R. Wild. 1994. Localities in Baden-Württemberg that have yielded Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapod remains. Paleontologia Lombarda, Nuova Serie 2:35-38 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 35596 | A. R. Milner and R. R. Schoch. 2004. The latest metoposaurids from Europe. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 232(2):231-252 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 28828 | R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |