Wolpertshausen, Heidehöfe (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.2° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 17.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Untere Graue Mergel Member (Erfurt Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, silty, calcareous mudstone

• Slightly bituminous shell bed with patchily distributed coal flakes. Matrix of calcareous and silty mudstones. 18 cm thick bed

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected in 1978

Collection methods: bulk,

• Repository: Muschelkalkmuseum Hagdorn (MHI), Schlossstr. 11, D-74653 Ingelfingen

Primary reference: G. Geyer, M. Hautmann, H. Hagdorn, W. Ockert, and M. Streng. 2005. Well-preserved mollusks from the Lower Keuper (Ladinian) of Hohenlohe (southwest Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 79(4):429-460 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57781: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.01.2006, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Mastodonsaurus giganteus
Mastodonsaurus giganteus Jaeger 1828 tetrapod
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria transversa
Myophoria transversa Bornemann 1856 clam
9 left valves, 14 right valves
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Unionites brevis, Unionites donacinus
Unionites brevis von Schauroth 1857 clam
some dozen specimens
Unionites donacinus Schlotheim 1820 clam
hundreds of specimens
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia (Bakevellia) subcostata
Bakevellia (Bakevellia) subcostata Goldfuss 1838 oyster
24 left valves, 4 right valves
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritariidae
Neritaria "sp. A", "Neritaria" interscripta n. sp., Neritaria cf. interscripta, Neritaria aff. matercula
Neritaria "sp. A" Koken 1892 snail
"Neritaria" interscripta n. sp. Geyer et al. 2005 snail
Neritaria cf. interscripta Geyer et al. 2005 snail
Neritaria aff. matercula Quenstedt 1884 snail