Also known as Niederhässlich; Niederhäslich; Nieder-Hässlich; Plauenscher Grund; Döhlen Basin

Where: Saxony, Germany (51.0° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Niederhäslich limestone Member (Niederhäslich-Schweinsdorf Formation), Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• "The Niederhäslich Formation belongs stratigraphically [...] to the Melanerpeton gracile-M. pulcherimus Zone, i. e. uppermost Unterrotliegend" (U. Hoffman, 2002, Workshop „Oberkarbon - Untertrias in Zentraleuropa: Prozesse und ihr Timing“ [online] http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/palaeo/GeoTage-2002.pdf) (TL);

•the Niederhäslich limestone is Asselian according to assorted references, e.g., Gebhardt and Schneider 1993 (JA)

•According to Roscher & Schneider (2006, in Lucas et al. (eds), Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. 265) the Niederhäslich Fm. is Sakmarian in age (TL).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Museum: Staatliches Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie, Dresden (SMMGD)

Primary reference: H. B. Geinitz. 1861. Dyas oder die Zechsteinformation und das Rothliegende [Dyas or the Zechstein Formation and the Rothliegende] 1-342 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52522: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 10.08.2005, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Richard Butler, Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen

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