Reurieth: Aegean, Germany
collected by Geissenhöhner 1937

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Anomoiodon liliensterni n. gen., n. sp. Huene 1939
Säilä 2008 2 individuals
MB.R.3539B (holotype), MB.R.3539A (paratype), both in one and the same block
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Thuringia County:Hildburghausen
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 10.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.2° North, 19.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Aegean
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Middle Buntsandstein Formation:Solling Member:Chirotherien Sandstein
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lowest layer of the Chirotherium Sandstone (Middle Bundsandstein). Chirotherium Sandstone is equivalent to the uppermost part of the Solling Formation, which is dated as earliest Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,gray sandstone
Environment:paralic indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "At the end of the alluvial magnacycle of the Middle Buntsandstein, the whole area of Thuringia is subjected to a major marine transgression leaving as products the grey, bleached Thuringian Chirotheriensandstein which contains beach sand plain deposits [...]" (Langbein, 1985, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol. 4, p. 565)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MfN
Collectors:Geissenhöhner Collection dates:1937
Collection method comments: A fairly detailed description of the preparation of the type specimen of A. liliensterni is given by v. Huene (1939).
The specimen was found by the bricklayer Geissenhöhner and then came to the founder of the local museum and hobby paleontologist Rühe von Lilienstern who loaned it for the purpose of scientific examination to von Huene (ibid.).
Metadata
Database number:85958
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-01-21 21:34:04 Last modified:2023-11-07 13:38:42
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-21 21:34:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32215. F. v. Huene. 1939. Ein neuer Procolophonide aus dem deutschen Buntsandstein. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilagen-Band, Abteilung B 81:501-511 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

64450 M. Lang and F. v. Huene. 1952. Die Saurier Thüringens nach Erhebungen ihres centralen Betreuters Dr. med. u. Dr. rer. nat. h. c. Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern† [The Dinosaurs of Thuringia after Surveys of Their Central Supervisor M.D. and Dr. Nat. Sci. Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern†] 1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29018 L. K. Säilä. 2008. The Osteology and Affinities of Anomoiodon liliensterni, a Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1199-1205 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]