Niederkirchen/Westpfalz: Asselian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Branchiosauridae
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Melanerpeton humbergense
(Boy 1978)
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Schoch and Milner 2014 | |||||||||
| GPIM material (Boy, 1978) | ||||||||||
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Apateon caducus
(Ammon 1889)
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Schoch and Milner 2014 | |||||||||
| GPIM specimen(s?) (Boy 1978) | ||||||||||
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Apateon pedestris
von Meyer 1840
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Schoch and Milner 2014 | |||||||||
| PIM material | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Sclerocephalus haeuseri
Goldfuss 1847
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Schoch and Milner 2000 | |||||||||
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Brachystelechidae
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Batropetes niederkirchensis n. sp.
Glienke 2013
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1 individual | |||||||||
| Holotype: SMNS 55884 (specimen first described as Batropetes fritschi by Carroll (1991)) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Rhineland-Palatinate | County: | Kaiserslautern |
| Coordinates: | 49.6° North, 7.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.1° North, 18.7° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Asselian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 1 |
| Key time interval: | Asselian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 298.90000 - 293.52000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rotliegend | Formation: | Meisenheim | ||
| Local section: | M6 | Local bed: | M6 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Biostratigraphically, the find can be attributed to Boy's Leptorophus humbergensis-Apateon caducus association. This association is part of the Apateon caducus group and has an upper 'Autunian' age. This corresponds to the lower Sakmarian of international stratigraphy"
The Jeckenbach Subformation, however, is of Asselian age according to "Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,gray silty "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "laminated silty grey shale" | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine - large | Tectonic setting: | intermontane basin |
| Geology comments: "deposited in a large, shallow, eutrophic lake" - Carroll (1991) | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Gemeindeburg near Niederkirchen | ||
| Database number: | 85451 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller, R. Butler | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht, E. Dunne |
| Modifier: | E. Dunne | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-12-21 15:26:47 | Last modified: | 2016-08-04 10:38:40 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2010-12-21 15:26:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28837. | R. L. Carroll. 1991. Batropetes from the Lower Permian of Europe - a Microsaur, not a Reptile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(2):229-242 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 59142 | S. Glienke. 2013. A taxonomic revision of Batropetes (Amphibia, Microsauria) from the Rotliegend (basal Permian) of Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 269(1):73-96 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] | |
| 28828 | R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] | |
| 57795 | R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne] | |
| 60052 | R. R. Schoch and F. Witzmann. 2009. Osteology and relationships of the temnospondyl genus Sclerocephalus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157:135-168 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] |