Chemnitz-Glösa (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.9° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 15.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Ortelsdorf Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Uppermost Ortelsdorf Formation, about 6 m below the basal conglomerates of the Berthelsdorf Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, medium-grained, coarse sandstone

• The upper 80 m of the Ortelsdorf Formation exposed at the A4 motorway Glösa exit below the basal conglomerates of the Berthelsdorf Formation was documented in detail for facies analysis and fossil content. It consists of floodplain and channel deposits and deposits of local swamps forming decimeter-thick coal seams and carbonaceous shale
• The finding horizon is a 9-cm-thick medium- to coarse-grained quartz sandstone with single grains of kaolinized feldspars 1.3 mm in size, rare black metamorphite clasts up to 2.3 mm, and clasts of charcoal up to 15 mm in diameter.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Werneburg, F. Witzmann, and J. W. Schneider. 2019. The oldest known tetrapod (Temnospondyli) from Germany (Early Carboniferous, Viséan). PalZ 93(4):679-690 [B. Gee/B. Gee]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218108: authorized by Bryan Gee, entered by Bryan Gee on 18.02.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet.
Temnospondyli indet. von Zittel 1887 tetrapod
FG 683/1 (skull roof fragment)