Goessel Quarry 375, Ochsenbach (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Goesel

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.0° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Lower Stubensandstein = lower part of Löwenstein Fm. (Norian). Specimen comes from single level within layers 18–20 of the profile of Ochsenbach published by Brenner (1978, Arb. Inst. Geol. Palaont. Univ. Stuttgart 72:103–203)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red marl and sandstone

• skeleton found 3 m above the lower sandstone in a 4 m thick layer of red marl.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Linck in 1936; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Berckhemer. 1938. Wirbeltierfunde aus dem Stubensandstein des Strombergs [Vertebrate remains from the Stubensandstein of Stromberg]. Aus der Heimat 51(7/8):188-198 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13285: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.02.2002, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Efraasia minor Huene 1908 sauropodomorph
SMNS 17928, partial skeleton