Where: Bayern, Germany (49.5° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 11.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Feuerletten Formation (Keuper Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• The "Feuerletten" of Bavaria is from the upper Middle Keuper and is equivalent to the Trossingen Formation of late Norian age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous breccia
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1860s
• UEN: Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Primary reference: M. Moser. 2003. Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) aus dem Feuerletten (Mittelkeuper; Obertrias) von Bayern. Zitteliana B 24:1-188 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97815: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 31.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plateosauridae indet. Marsh 1895 plateosaurid UEN 565, distal left tibia, UEN 560, 564, ilium fragments. UEN 553, partial radius
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