Warmbach near Rheinfelden: Aegean - Bithynian, Germany

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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Sclerosaurus armatus n. gen., n. sp. von Meyer 1857
1 individual
Holotype, counterpart blocks with a partial postcranial skeleton; specimen in the collections of the Geologisches Institut of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg County:Lörrach
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 7.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.8° North, 18.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Aegean - Bithynian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Upper Buntsandstein Formation:Plattensandstein/Rötton
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Buntsandstein". The beds of the Upper Buntsandstein series (Lower and lowermost Middle Triassic of Central Europe) cropping out at Rheinfelden belong either to the Plattensandstein Fm. [Platy Sandstone Fm.] or to the overlying Rötton Fm. [Röt Claystone Fm.]. Upper Buntsandstein is early Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: specimen was found in the talus of the quarry
Metadata
Also known as:Sclerosaurus holotype site
Database number:85939
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-01-20 08:52:57 Last modified:2012-10-05 07:43:22
Access level:authorizer only Released:2012-01-20 08:52:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28995. H.-D. Sues and R. R. Reisz. 2008. Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Sclerosaurus armatus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1031-1042 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]