Untere Mühle, Trossingen (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.1° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mittlerer Stubensandstein Member (Löwenstein Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Quarry is within unit sc3 of the middle Stubensandstein

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; coarse-grained sandstone

• "widespread sand accumulations deposited rapidly and repeatedly by sheet floods on a playa plain"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1905

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• GPIT, Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen, Germany

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1911. Beiträge zur Kenntnes und Beurteiling der Parasuchier. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen, Neue Folge 10:67-121 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105831: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
"Sellosaurus gracilis" = Plateosaurus gracilis1
"Sellosaurus gracilis" = Plateosaurus gracilis1 Huene 1905 plateosaurid
GPIT 18392, partial skeleton
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Mystriosuchus westphali n. sp.2
Mystriosuchus westphali n. sp.2 Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000 archosaur
GPIT 261/001, complete skull lacking the mandible
1Galton 2001; 2Hungerbühler 2002