Kochertalbrücke, Untere Graue Mergel (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Kocher Viaduct

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.2° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° 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 "Untere Graue Mergel" 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; 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: JVP 26, 29)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: R. Damiani, R. R. Schoch, H. Hellrung, R. Werneburg, and S. Gastou. 2009. The plagiosaurid temnospondyl Plagiosuchus pustuliferus (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Middle Triassic of Germany: anatomy and functional morphology of the skull. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155:348-373 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106351: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Plagiosauridae
Plagiosuchus pustuliferus
Plagiosuchus pustuliferus Fraas 1896 tetrapod
SMNS 84793, disarticulated partial skeleton; SMNS 91040, left postparietal, a centrum and a neural arch