Gogolin, Upper Silesia (Triassic of Poland)

Where: Opolskie, Poland (50.6° N, 17.6° E: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chorzow Formation (Muschelkalk Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "Chorzover Schichten" = Chorzow/Chorzov Beds = Wellenkalk = Lower Muschelkalk Subgroup

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Fedder

• collected before 1910 by Engineer Fedder of Oppeln

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96435: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.06.2010, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Sauropterygia -
Sauropterygia indet.3 Owen 1859 diapsid
SMNS 16253, humerus
 Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae
Dactylosaurus gracilis3 Gürich 1884 diapsid
 Theropoda -
Zanclodon silesiacus n. sp.1 Jaekel 1910 theropod
tooth
 Protorosauria - Protorosauridae
Thecodontosaurus primus n. sp. Huene 1905 archosauromorph
vertebra
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
"Tanystropheus antiquus" = Protanystropheus antiquus
"Tanystropheus antiquus" = Protanystropheus antiquus Huene 1905 archosauromorph
 Diapsida - Saurosphargidae
Hemilopas mentzeli4 Meyer 1847 diapsid
MB. R. 1978, natural mold of jaw fragment
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Eurycervix posthumus n. sp.2 Huene 1902 tetrapod
Mentosaurus waltheri n. sp.2 Röpke 1930 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
Xestorrhytias perrini n. sp.2 Meyer 1855 tetrapod