Gottlob quarry, Friedrichroda (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.9° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Goldlauterer Member (Goldlauterer Formation), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• Lower Rotliegenden, upper Autun

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, gray lithology not reported

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: W. Pabst. 1908. Die Tierfährten in dem Rotliegenden “Deutschlands” [The animal tracks in the “German” Rotliegenden]. Nova Acta. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 89(2):315-480 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180765: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 31.07.2016, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Material from this locality are housed at NHMUK, SMF, and MNG.
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Melanerpeton eisfeldi n. sp., "Branchiosaurus flagrifer n. sp." = Apateon flagrifer, Apateon kontheri n. sp.
Melanerpeton eisfeldi n. sp. Werneburg 1988 tetrapod
MNG 2992-68 (Holotype: skeleton)
"Branchiosaurus flagrifer n. sp." = Apateon flagrifer Whittard 1930 tetrapod
UMZC T.22 (formerly DMSW B.48) (Holotype: skeleton in dorsal aspect). "Hundreds of specimens" from this locality.
Apateon kontheri n. sp. Werneburg 1988 tetrapod
FG 321/9/1 AND HLD V.70 (Holotype: part and counterpart of a skull). Also, MNG 2992-2 and 2992-10 (paratypes)
Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Ichniotherium cottae n. sp. Pohlig 1885 tetrapod
Gotha no. 1381, 1382–1386, 1781–1782