Also known as Pachysaurus type, Wüstenroth
Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 10.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Knollenmergel Member (Trossingen Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Knollenmergel = Trossingen Formation, upper Middle Keuper, upper Norian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Hildebrand in 1881
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• "It was discovered in 1881 by Jacob Hildenbrand from Ohmen when doing topographic prospections in Wüstenroth, southeast from Löwenstein...Quenstedt acquired it for the palaeontological collection in Tübingen; it was until 1901 that the material, which Hildebrand put inside a cement block (von Huene 1907: 138, pl. 56–59). Von Huene mounted it after he prepared and isolated the elements."
Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48693: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pachysaurus ajax n. sp.
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