Bl. 6922, Wüstenrot: Norian, Germany
collected by J. Hildebrand 1881

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Pachysaurus ajax n. sp. Huene 1905
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
UT (GPIT) C = GPIT VII = GPIT-PV-30790
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 49.1° North, 9.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 10.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:489 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Keuper Formation:Trossingen Member:Knollenmergel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Knollenmergel = Trossingen Formation, upper Middle Keuper, upper Norian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. Hildebrand Collection dates:1881
Collection method comments: "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."
Metadata
Also known as:Pachysaurus type, Wüstenroth
Database number:48693
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-28 11:00:17 Last modified:2023-04-03 15:38:12
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-28 11:00:17
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:

44535 M. J. Benton and R. Wild. 1994. Localities in Baden-Württemberg that have yielded Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapod remains. Paleontologia Lombarda, Nuova Serie 2:35-38 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
25716ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Actas de Las I Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno, Salas de Los Infantes, Burgos, Spain, September 1999. Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico de Salas, C.A.S. 25-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12994ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20(2):435-502 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83610 O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg. 2022. A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72:771-822 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61599 H. Thürach. 1889. Uebersicht über die Gliederung des Keupers im nördlichen Franken im Vergleiche zu den Benachbarten Gegenden [Survey of the structure of the Keupers in northern Franconia in comparison with neighboring regions]. Geognostische Jahreshefte 2:1-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]