Neidenfels, near Crailsheim, Lettenkeuper (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.4° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Lettenkeuper Member (Erfurt Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Collected from the Vitriolschiefer of the lowermost Lettenkeuper, now formally the Erfurt Formation of the Lower Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Haubold in 1991; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and R. Wild. 1995. A Middle Triassic dicynodont from Germany and the biochronology of Triassic dicynodonts. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde B 220:1-16 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175586: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 16.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
? Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
SMNS 56891, humerus