Gablenberg, Abelsberg Strasse, Stuttgart (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Abelsberger Straße, Stuttgart-Gaisburg

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.8° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Stubensandstein Member (Löwenstein Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; sandstone

• Lower Stubensandstein consists of "widespread sand accumulations deposited rapidly and repeatedly by sheet floods on a playa plain"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Epple in 1911; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas. 2000. Pathological aetosaur armor from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 281:1-6 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106363: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Paratypothorax andressorum Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
SMNS 12958, three dorsal paramedian plates (pathological)
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Nicrosaurus kapffi Meyer 1860 archosaur
SMNS 13078, prenarial portion of snout