"Hegenbrunn bei Kulmbach" (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as ? Hegnabrunn

Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.1° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Ceratites spinosus ammonoid zone, Meissner Formation (Muschelkalk Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• The spinosus zone comprises the upper part of the Meißner Formation of the German Muschelkalk (Rein, 2003, Veröff. Naturkundemus. Erfurt 22/2003, fig. 1). Lucas, citing Hagdorn (1998), refers the horizon in question to the Late Anisian. However, the Meißner Formation is Ladinian in age according to Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lime mudstone

• The Ceratitenkalk generally is interpreted as a pelagic deposit. Sequence stratigraphy is according to Aigner & Bachmann (1992, Sed. Geol. 80) who regard the Upper Muschelkalk up to the "Cycloides bed", which is well above the spinosus zone (cf. Rein, 2003, Veröff. Naturkundemus. Erfurt 22/2003, fig. 1), as a transgressive systems tract.
• The ceratite bearing strata of the Upper Muschelkalk ("Ceratitenkalk") usually are represented by lime mudstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Wild in 1974; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: S. Lucas. 2007. Another Dicynodont from the Triassic Muschelkalk of Germany and its Biochronological Significance. In S. G. Lucas & J. A. Spielmann (ed.), The Global Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 41:219-221 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91830: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 21.10.2009, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
? Temnospondyli indet.
? Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
SMNS 83875, a single radius