Remigiusberg Quarry (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49.9° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Remigiusberg Formation (Rotliegend Group), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, silty sandstone

• "calcareous, fine−grained sandstone of gray−blue−green colour with coarse silty lamina"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Fröbisch, R. R. Schoch, J. Müller, T. Schindler, and D. Schweiss. 2011. A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of the Saar−Nahe Basin, Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(1):113-120 [J. Fröbisch/J. Fröbisch]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109702: authorized by Jörg Fröbisch, entered by Jörg Fröbisch on 22.05.2011, edited by Emma Dunne and Bryan Gee

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Eryopoidea indet.2 Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod
POL-F 2012-001, lower jaw
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Edaphosauridae
Remigiomontanus robustus n. gen. n. sp.1
Remigiomontanus robustus n. gen. n. sp.1 Spindler et al. 2019 synapsid
Holotype—UGKU 1997, largely complete trunk skeleton, caudal fragments, and a few phalanges, associated with freshwater shark coprolites and teeth. Referred specimens (same horizon as holotype, but some 150 m away from it)—UGKU 2546 and 2551, dorsal spine fragments; UGKU 2552, dorsal rib.
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Cryptovenator hirschbergeri n. gen. n. sp. Fröbisch et al. 2011 synapsid
LFN−PW 2008/5599−LS (holotype)