Kesselgraben quarry tracksite (Permian to of Germany)

Also known as Friedrichroda

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.9° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 259.5 Ma)

• "middle Rotliegenden"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by O. Scheller in 1897

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

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 223855: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.12.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria -
"Ichnium dolichodactylum" = Varanopus microdactylus
"Ichnium dolichodactylum" = Varanopus microdactylus Pabst 1896 tetrapod
Reptilia
  - Rhynchosauroidae
"Ichnium gampsodactylum" = Dromopus lacertoides
"Ichnium gampsodactylum" = Dromopus lacertoides Geinitz 1861 reptile
Gotha no. 1900, 1907, 2005
Ichnium
  -
Ichnium pachydactylum Pabst 1908
Gotha no. 1901–1902, 1990–1991