forest southeast of Markt Obernzenn (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.4° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 15.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Stuttgart Formation (Keuper Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Schilfsandstein", equivalent to the Stuttgart Formation of early Carnian age (Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005, Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253: 1-296). Fossiliferous horizon lies at contact with underlying Grabfeld Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, conglomeratic sandstone

• "The fossiliferous horizon is a 15-25 cm thick light green, conglomeratic sandstone with pebbly, green mudstone and siltstone clasts in the 0.5-5 cm range."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2009; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch. 2012. A dicynodont mandible from the Triassic of Germany forms the first evidence of large herbivores in the Central European Carnian. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 263:119-123 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124374: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.02.2012, edited by Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Kannemeyeriiformes indet. Huene 1948 dicynodont
SMNS 91416, partial mandible
Woznikella triradiata Szczygielski and Sulej 2023 dicynodont
Referred specimen: SMNS 91416 (fragmentary mandible)
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
 Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae
Cyclotosaurus sp. Fraas 1889 tetrapod
Partial skull and vertebrae
? Cyclotosaurus sp. Fraas 1889 tetrapod
Interclavicles and clavicles
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
? Metoposaurus sp. Lydekker 1890 tetrapod
Interclavicles and clavicles
 Temnospondyli - Plagiosauridae
Gerrothorax sp. Nilsson 1934 tetrapod
Vertebrae
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes -
Lissodus sp. Brough 1935 elasmobranch
Teeth