Gogolin, Upper Silesia: Anisian, Poland
collected by Fedder

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Sauropterygia indet. Owen 1859
Rieppel and Lin 1995
SMNS 16253, humerus
Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae
Dactylosaurus gracilis Gürich 1884
Rieppel and Lin 1995
Reptilia
Zanclodon silesiacus n. sp. Jaekel 1910
Jaekel 1910 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Theropoda
tooth
Reptilia - Protorosauria - Protorosauridae
Thecodontosaurus primus n. sp. Huene 1905
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Protorosauridae
vertebra
Reptilia - Tanystropheidae
Tanystropheus antiquus Huene 1905
recombined as Protanystropheus antiquus
Reptilia - Saurosphargidae
Hemilopas mentzeli Meyer 1847
Surmik 2016
MB. R. 1978, natural mold of jaw fragment
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Eurycervix posthumus n. sp. Huene 1902
Lucas and Heckert 2000
Mentosaurus waltheri n. sp. Röpke 1930
Lucas and Heckert 2000
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Xestorrhytias perrini n. sp. Meyer 1855
Lucas and Heckert 2000
synonym of Mastodonsauridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland State/province:Opolskie
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 17.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.2° North, 23.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Anisian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Muschelkalk Formation:Chorzow
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Chorzover Schichten" = Chorzow/Chorzov Beds = Wellenkalk = Lower Muschelkalk Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Fedder
Collection method comments: collected before 1910 by Engineer Fedder of Oppeln
Metadata
Database number:96435
Authorizer:M. Carrano, A. Dunhill Enterer:M. Carrano, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-06-07 14:52:19 Last modified:2021-02-02 14:35:35
Access level:the public Released:2010-06-07 14:52:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16920.ETE F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32736ETE O. Jaekel. 1910. Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg [On a new belodontid from the Buntsandstein of Bernburg]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1910(5):197-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67403 S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2000. Biochronological significance of Triassic nonmarine tetrapod records from marine strata. Albertiana 24:27-32 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
66570 O. Rieppel and K. Lin. 1995. Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. Fieldiana: Geology, new series (32)1-44 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]
35501 A. G. Sennikov. 2011. New tanystropheids (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic of Europe. Paleontological Journal 45(1):90-104 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
66592 D. Surmik. 2016. Hemilopas mentzeli, an enigmatic marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of Poland revisited. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen 282(2):209-223 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]