Also known as Roter Graben

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Knollenmergel Member (Trossingen Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Knollenmergel, upper Middle Keuper, upper Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Tscherning in 1870

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• GPIT: Paläontologische Sammlung der Universität Tübingen

•"Found during a construction site at Roter Graben near Bebenhausen in 1870, when Forstrat Tscherning collected and sent them for study to Quenstedt (von Huene 1907: 127)."

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48692: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.03.2005

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