Also known as unterer Springer, Nöth's "Mastodonsaurus"-Bank

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blasensandstein Member (Hassberge Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Bed 5 within the Ebrach quarry (see Kuhn 1936:94), with 1.6 m thickness; Blasensandstein locally overlies the Lehrbergschichten and underlies the Coburger Sandstein and is laterally equivalent to the Kieselsandstein of Baden-Württemberg which is now the lower Hassberge Formation, Middle Keuper Subgroup, and is considered late Carnian in age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).

•Hunt & Lucas (1991) referred this locality to their "Paleorhinus biochron" and it was subsequently incorporated into the Otischalkian LVF.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, green, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Heim, A. Neukam, L. Nöth in 1929-1932; reposited in the BSP

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: O. Kuhn. 1932. Labyrinthodonten und Parasuchier aus dem mittleren Keuper von Ebrach in Oberfranken. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 69:94-144 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97738: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.08.2010

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