North of Heiligenkreuz (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Lower Austria, Austria (48.1° N, 16.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 23.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raibl Formation (Keuper Group), Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• Julian of the "Raibler Schichten" (Lucas & Heckert 2000)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: University of Tübingen, Germany

Primary reference: E. H. Colbert and J. Imbrie. 1956. Triassic metoposaurid amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110:399-452 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197689: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 22.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposaurus santaecrucis n. sp. Koken 1913 tetrapod
Partial skull