Breitelen, Hallau layers d & e: Norian, Switzerland
collected by F. Schalch, B. Peyer 1915
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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? Hybodonchus sp.
Fraas 1889
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Mollusca indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Eosauropterygia
- Nothosauridae
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Nothosauridae indet.
Baur 1889
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Gresslyosaurus sp.
Rütimeyer 1856
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Gresslyosaurus ingens
Rütimeyer 1856
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Peyer 1944 | |||||||||
= "Gresslyosaurus" sp.
Rütimeyer 1856
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Galton 1986 | |||||||||
= Plateosaurus sp.
Meyer 1837
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Weishampel et al. 2004 | |||||||||
= Sauropodomorpha indet.
Huene 1932
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Rauhut et al. 2020 | |||||||||
MzA NAT15075 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Megalosaurus sp.
Parkinson 1822
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
= ? Tetanurae indet.
Gauthier 1986
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Weishampel et al. 2004 | |||||||||
= Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Carrano 2023 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Pterosauria
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Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Campylognathoididae
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cf. Eudimorphodon sp.
Zambelli 1973
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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"Termatosaurus" sp.
Plieninger 1844
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= Termatosaurus albertii
Meyer and Plieninger 1844
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Labyrinthodontia
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Labyrinthodontia indet.
Owen 1859
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Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus parvus
Agassiz 1838
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Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Semionotidae
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Sargodon tomicus
Plieninger 1847
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Clemens 1980 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Switzerland | State/province: | Schaffhausen |
Coordinates: | 47.7° North, 8.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 30.7° North, 10.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 421 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Norian | ||
Age range of interval: | 228.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Klettgau | Member: | Gruhalde | ||
Local section: | Hallau | Local bed: | d/e | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: from layers d & e (mixed collection), possibly reworked from layer c (Knollemergel), occasionally termed the "Zanclodonmergel". Layers d and e are the Bratelen bonebeds and form the topmost beds of the Gruhalde Member of the Klettgau Formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified marl |
Secondary lithology: | lithified marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "Layers d and e consist of 0.25 m of compact "Zanclodonmergel" breccia with bone bed (d) and 1.00 m of loose marl bonebed (e, with same vertebrate fossils as d)." | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,core,mechanical,sieve,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | F. Schalch, B. Peyer | Collection dates: | 1915 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Unter-Hallau, Hallau-Bratelen; Hallau Bratelen | ||
Database number: | 47803 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-02 07:30:11 | Last modified: | 2020-07-13 10:23:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-02 07:30:11 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
71681. | F. Schalch and B. Peyer. 1919. Über ein neues Rhätvorkommen im Keuper des Donau-Rheinzuges [On a new occurrence of the Rhaetian in the Keuper of the Danube-Rhine valleys]. Mitteilungen der Badischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 8(21):263-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
14199 | ETE | M. T. Carrano. 2023. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria. [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
13645 | ETE | W. A. Clemens. 1980. Rhaeto-Liassic mammals from Switzerland and West Germany. Zitteliana 5:51-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12799 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1986. Prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (= Gresslyosaurus) (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland. Geologica et Palaeontologica 20:167-183 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
49933 | B. Peyer. 1944. Über Wirbeltierfunde aus dem Rhät von Hallau (Kt. Schaffhausen) [On the vertebrate finds from the Rhaetian of Hallau (Canton Schaffhausen)]. Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae 36(2):260-263 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
19839 | ETE | B. Peyer. 1956. Über Zähne von Haramiyiden, von Triconodonten und von wahrscheinlich synapsiden Reptilien aus dem Rhät von Hallau, Kt. Schaffhausen, Schweiz [On the teeth of haramiyids, triconodonts, and probable synapsid reptiles from the Rhaetic of Hallau, Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland]. Schweizerische Paleontologische Abhandlungen 72:1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
72985 | O. W. M. Rauhut, F. M. Holwerda, and H. Furrer. 2020. A derived sauropodiform dinosaur and other sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic of Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113:8:1-54 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
23520 | ETE | D. B. Weishampel, P. M. Barrett, R. A. Coria, J. Le Loeuff, X. Xu, X. Zhao, A. Sahni, E. M. P. Gomani, and C. R. Noto. 2004. Dinosaur distribution. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 517-606 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
66018 | D. I. Whiteside, C. J. Duffin, and H. Furrer. 2017. The Late Triassic lepidosaur fauna from Hallau, North-Eastern Switzerland, and a new ‘basal’ rhynchocephalian Deltadectes elvetica gen. et sp. nov. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 285(1):53-74 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] |