Trossingen-Aixheim area (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

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle 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: GPIT, Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen, Germany

Primary reference: A. Hungerbühler. 2002. The Late Triassic phytosaur Mystriosuchus westphali, with a revision of the genus. Palaeontology 45(2):377-418 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105833: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 26.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Mystriosuchus westphali
Mystriosuchus westphali Hungerbühler and Hunt 2000 archosaur
GPIT 2145.000, symphyseal fragment of a dentary. GPIT 2156.000, palatal imprint of a snout fragment