PBDB Collection

Remigiusberg Quarry (Carboniferous to of Germany)

Also known as UGKU locality 21

Where: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (49.9° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 17.8° E)

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When: Remigiusberg Formation (Rotliegend Group), Gzhelian to Gzhelian (303.7 - 295.5 Ma)

• "The Remigiusberg quarry belongs to the continental Carboniferous–Permian Lorraine–Saar–Nahe Basin, which is one of the largest intramontane basins of the European Variscides (Schäfer, 1986)." [...] "Radioisotopic dates from volcanic tuff beds of the Remigiusberg and immediately overlying Altenglan formations suggest that the sediments exposed at the Remigiusberg quarry cover the Carboniferous–Permian boundary with a minimum age of 298.7 ± 0.4 Ma" Werneburg et al. (2024)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, silty sandstone

• "calcareous, fine-grained sandstone of gray-green colour with coarse silty lamina". "The Saar–Nahe Basin accumulated an up to a 10,000-m-thick succession of volcano-sedimentary rocks. [...] Up to 40 m of fluvio-lacustrine and deltaic sediments of the Remigiusberg Formation currently exposed at the Remigiusberg quarry show a complex interbedding of fluvio-deltaic conglomerate, sandstone, and mudstone, with lacustrine limestone and volcanic tuff beds as minor components. Lithostratigraphic subdivision of the succession is based on seven limestone units ranging 20–150 cm in thickness. The limestone units are referred to the Theisbergstegen and Haschbach lake levels of the middle part and to the Friedelhausen lake level of the basal upper part of the Remigiusberg Formation." Werneburg et al. (2024)

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

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Osteichthyes
Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae	Cryptovenator hirschbergeri n. gen. n. sp. Cryptovenator hirschbergeri n. gen. n. sp. Fröbisch et al. 2011 synapsid LFN−PW 2008/5599−LS (holotype)
Synapsida - Edaphosauridae	Remigiomontanus robustus n. gen. n. sp.² Remigiomontanus robustus n. gen. n. sp.² 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.
Amphibia
Temnospondyli -	Trypanognathus remigiusbergensis n. gen. n. sp.¹ Trypanognathus remigiusbergensis n. gen. n. sp.¹ Schoch and Voigt 2019 tetrapod Holotype—UGKU 2394, consisting of complete skull, interclavicle, clavicles, neural arches, and partial left hind limb
Temnospondyli - Eryopidae	Stenokranio boldi n. gen. n. sp.³ Stenokranio boldi n. gen. n. sp.³ Werneburg et al. 2024 tetrapod Holotype: NHMMZ/LS PW 2019/5025 (formerly: UGKU 2564), consisting of the skull with skull roof and palate, together with remains of the mandibles. Paratype: NHMMZ/LS PW 2019/5022 (formerly: UGKU 1998), consisting of the greater portion of skull roof, parts of the palate with palatine, choana and several pairs of fangs, and the mandible in lateral view, together with a few bones of the anterior postcranium.
Temnospondyli -	Eryopoidea indet.⁴ Eryopoidea indet.⁴ Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod POL-F 2012-001, lower jaw

¹Schoch and Voigt 2019; ²Spindler et al. 2019; ³Werneburg et al. 2024; ⁴Witzmann 2013