Bl. 6922, Wüstenrot (Triassic of Germany)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Pachysaurus ajax n. sp. Huene 1905 prosauropod
UT (GPIT) C = GPIT VII = GPIT-PV-30790