Also known as unterer Springer, Nöth's "Mastodonsaurus"-Bank
Where: Bayern, Germany (49.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 15.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blasensandstein Member (Hassberge Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Bed 5 within the Ebrach quarry (see Kuhn 1936:94), with 1.6 m thickness; Blasensandstein locally overlies the Lehrbergschichten and underlies the Coburger Sandstein and is laterally equivalent to the Kieselsandstein of Baden-Württemberg which is now the lower Hassberge Formation, Middle Keuper Subgroup, and is considered late Carnian in age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).
•Hunt & Lucas (1991) referred this locality to their "Paleorhinus biochron" and it was subsequently incorporated into the Otischalkian LVF.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, green, white sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. Heim, A. Neukam, L. Nöth in 1929-1932; reposited in the BSP
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: O. Kuhn. 1932. Labyrinthodonten und Parasuchier aus dem mittleren Keuper von Ebrach in Oberfranken. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 69:94-144 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97738: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Cyclotosaurus ebrachensis n. sp.
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"Metoposaurus heimi" = Metoposaurus diagnosticus2
"Metoposaurus heimi" = Metoposaurus diagnosticus2 Meyer 1842 tetrapod Interclavicles; specimen currently lost (probably destroyed in WW2)
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"Plagiosaurus franconicus n. sp." = Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
"Plagiosaurus franconicus n. sp." = Gerrothorax pulcherrimus Fraas 1913 tetrapod Interclavicle; specimen currently lost (probably destroyed in WW2)
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Reptilia | |
Phytosauria indet.1 Jaeger 1828 archosaur Teeth; specimens currently lost (probably destroyed in WW2)
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"Paleorhinus sp." = Parasuchus1
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Osteichthyes | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Anoplophora sp." = Unionites2
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