Also known as Lindenschacht; Kupferschiefer, Copper Shale; Richelsdorfer Revier; Richelsdorfer Gebirge, Richelsdorf Mountains
Where: Hesse, Germany (51.0° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 22.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kupferschiefer Member (Werra Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 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).
•Brauns et al. (2003) reported a date of 257.3±1.6 Ma (Late Permian/Lopingian: Wuchiapingian) for the Kupferschiefer based on a Re-Os geochronological study. The presence of the conodont Mesogondolella britannica in Kupferschiefer equivalents supports a middle Wuchiapingian age for the Protorosaurus-bearing levels (Legler et al. 2005, 2008).
• member-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
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• GZG.V = Vertebrate Collection of Geoscience Center of Göttingen University (Geowisschenschafliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen)
Primary reference: H. v. Meyer. 1856. Zur Fauna der Vorwelt. Band 3. Saurier aus dem Kupferschiefer der Zechsteinformation 28 p. [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93036: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Protorosaurus speneri Meyer 1832 archosauromorph BSP AS VII 1207, IPB R 535, IGPM Mbg. 1796a,b, NHMS SP 236, NMK S 180, NMK S182, NMK SSCH 186, eight specimens in private collections
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