Neuhaus, near Aixheim (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.1° N, 8.7° 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

• bed-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

Collection methods: quarrying,

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

Primary reference: E. Fraas. 1896. Die Schwäbischen Trias-Saurier nach dem Material der Kgl. Naturalien-Sammlung in Stuttgart zusammengestellt [Swabian Triassic dinosaurs based on the material in the Royal Natural History Collection compiled in Stuttgart]. Festgabe des Königlichen Naturalien-Cabinets In Stuttgart zur 42 Versammlung der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, August 1896. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlag-handlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart 1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105832: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Belodon planirostris n. sp." = Mystriosuchus planirostris, Mystriosuchus westphali
"Belodon planirostris n. sp." = Mystriosuchus planirostris Meyer 1863 archosaur
SMNS 10260, skeleton, SMNS 13007, skull and postcranial material
Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000 archosaur
GPIT 261/17/7, mid-section of the premaxillary part of a large snout. GPIT 2146.000, post-symphyseal fragment of a left mandibular ramus