Jägerhaus quarry, Wartenberg, Heilbronn (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schilfsandstein Member (Stuttgart Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Collected from the "Schilfsandstein", now formally the Stuttgart Formation of the lower Middle Keuper of late early Carnian age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106459: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposaurus diagnosticus Meyer 1842 tetrapod
SMNS uncatalogued, skull
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Hyperokynodon keuperinus n. gen. n. sp.
Hyperokynodon keuperinus n. gen. n. sp. Plieninger 1852 tetrapod
SMNS 16670, partial skull (holotype). SMNS 55910