Road-cut, Michelbach an der Bilz (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lettenkeuper Member (Erfurt Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Collected from the "Sandige Pflanzenschiefer" of the Upper Lettenkeuper, now formally the Erfurt Formation of the Lower Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296). This locality is Longobardian (late Ladinian) in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green, silty marl

• "this formation has been interpreted as representing an estuarine environment, supported by the frequent succession of very shallow marine, limnic/brackish swamp, and deltaic deposits" (Schoch 2006: 29)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Hagdorn, W. Ockert in 1979; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. S. Schoch. 2006. A complete trematosaurid amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):29-43 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106349: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
Osteoderms
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Mastodonsaurus giganteus Jaeger 1828 tetrapod
Disarticulated juvenile skull
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"Kupferzellia wildi" = Tatrasuchus wildi
"Kupferzellia wildi" = Tatrasuchus wildi Schoch 1997 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Trematolestes hagdorni n. gen. n. sp.
Trematolestes hagdorni n. gen. n. sp. Schoch 2006 tetrapod
SMNS 81790, nearly complete skeleton
 Temnospondyli - Plagiosauridae
Plagiosauridae indet. Abel 1919 tetrapod
Osteoderms
Gerrothorax pustuloglomeratus tetrapod
Articulated skeleton