Warmbach near Rheinfelden (Triassic to of Germany)

Also known as Sclerosaurus holotype site

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.6° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 18.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Plattensandstein/Rötton Formation (Upper Buntsandstein Group), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "Upper Buntsandstein". The beds of the Upper Buntsandstein series (Lower and lowermost Middle Triassic of Central Europe) cropping out at Rheinfelden belong either to the Plattensandstein Fm. [Platy Sandstone Fm.] or to the overlying Rötton Fm. [Röt Claystone Fm.]. Upper Buntsandstein is early Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• specimen was found in the talus of the quarry

Primary reference: H.-D. Sues and R. R. Reisz. 2008. Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Sclerosaurus armatus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1031-1042 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85939: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 20.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Sclerosaurus armatus n. gen. n. sp.
Sclerosaurus armatus n. gen. n. sp. von Meyer 1857 parareptile
Holotype, counterpart blocks with a partial postcranial skeleton; specimen in the collections of the Geologisches Institut of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau