Hassfurt area tracksite (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Hassfurth

Where: Germany (50.0° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Middle Keuper, Semionotensandstein (= km4, = Löwenstein Fm. = Stubensandstein Fm.)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by J. Keil

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. Beurlen. 1950. Neue Fährtenfunde aus der Fränkischen Trias [New track discoveries in the Franconian Triassic]. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1950:308-320 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 170320: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
"Brachychirotherium hassfurtense n. gen. n. sp." = Brachychirotherium thuringiacum
"Brachychirotherium hassfurtense n. gen. n. sp." = Brachychirotherium thuringiacum Rühle von Lilienstern 1938 archosaur
 Saurischia -
Coelurosaurichnus kehli n. sp. Beurlen 1950 saurischian
Coelurosaurichnus moeni n. sp. Beurlen 1950 saurischian
 Squamata -
Rhynchocephalichnus franconicus Heller 1956 squamates
Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Thecodontichnus sp. Huene 1941 tetrapod