Rothenacker Wald, Markgröningen (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.9° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 17.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Hauptsandstein of the Lower 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; sandstone

• "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. R. Schoch. 1999. Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 278:1-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106356: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Mastodonsaurus giganteus
Mastodonsaurus giganteus Jaeger 1828 tetrapod
SMNS 4774, complete skull