Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.9° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Löwenstein Formation (Keuper Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• on layer between the Untere Stubensandstein and Obere Bunte Mergel, listed as Löwenstein/Trossingen boundary, but actually between lower and upper parts of Löwenstein Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, coarse, gray, red, yellow, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone and fine-grained, gray, green, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1989

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F.-O. Haderer. 1990. Ein tridactyles Trittsiegel aus dem Unteren Stubensandstein (Obere Trias, Nor) des Rühlenbachtales (Württemberg) [A tridactyl footprint from the Lower Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic, Norian) of the Rühlenbach valley (Württemberg)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 160:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50303: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.05.2005

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