Also known as Ilfeld Basin, Kupferschiefer, Copper Shale
Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (51.6° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 22.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Kupferschiefer Member (Werra Formation), Zechstein (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)
• The Kupferschiefer is the basalmost unit of the Werra Formation, the latter being the basalmost formation of the Zechstein Series (Uppermost Permian of Central Europe).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, carbonaceous claystone
•"Sedimentation rates during Kupferschiefer deposition were low (5 mm kyr)1; Füchtbauer, 1968). The Kupferschiefer is thus interpreted as a condensed section, which formed during maximum flooding (Ross & Ross, 1995; Strohmenger et al., 1996a)." (Becker & Bechstädt, 2006)
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Jugler in 1848
• GZG.V = Vertebrate Collection of Geoscience Center of Göttingen University (Geowisschenschafliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen)
Primary reference: L. A. Tsuji and J. Müller. 2008. A Re-evaluation of Parasaurus geinitzi, the first named pareiasaur (Amniota, Parareptilia). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45(10):1111-1121 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85561: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 08.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Parasaurus geinitzi n. gen. n. sp.
Parasaurus geinitzi n. gen. n. sp. von Meyer 1857 parareptile GZG.V.010.101 (type; "Jugler'sches Exemplar", pl. 5 fig. 1 in von Meyer, 1856)
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