Sperbersbach, near Oberhof (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thüringia, Germany (50.7° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Goldlauterer Member (Goldlauterer Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• In German: Untere Goldlauterer Schichten, Acanthodeshorizont, Unterrotliegendes

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

• Thuringian Forest basin; extensional basin with dextral strike-slip transtension component following the Variscan orogeny. After a relief reactivation, red-brown alluvial fan conglomerates and fluvial sandstones grade into brownish to greenish fluvio-lacustrine and very finely laminated (varved) black shales of the depocentres intercalated by basin-wide tuff marker-beds." Roscher & Schneider, 2006
• "Gold mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2014. Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 3A2 Temnospondyli I. [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180795: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae
Apateon flagrifer Whittard 1930 tetrapod