Mittelberg bei Coburg (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.3° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 19.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Chirotherien Sandstein Member (Solling Formation), Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• " [...] im mittleren Buntsandstein (Chirotherien Horizont) [in the Middle Buntsandstein (Chirotherium Level)]" (von Huene, 1911).

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•Chirotherium Sandstone is equivalent to the uppermost part of the Solling Formation, which is dated as earliest Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; medium-grained, gray sandstone

• "At the end of the alluvial magnacycle of the Middle Buntsandstein, the whole area of Thuringia is subjected to a major marine transgression leaving as products the grey, bleached Thuringian Chirotheriensandstein which contains beach sand plain deposits [...]" (Langbein, 1985, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol. 4, p. 565)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1911. Ueber die Procolophoniden, mit einer neuen Form aus dem Buntsandstein. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1911:78-83 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92888: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 03.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis n. gen. n. sp. Huene 1911 parareptile
originally entered as "Koiloskiosaurus coburgensis" (the spelling in Colbert, 1949, Bull. AMNH 86(5))