Lauf (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Nürnberg

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.5° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Feuerletten Member (Trossingen Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• No stratigraphic data provided by Moser (2003), but BSPG specimen label indicates that is from the "Plateosaurus-Konglomerat", part of the Feuerletten (equivalent to the Trossingen Formation), upper Middle Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Blanckenhorn, Zürlick in 1880s, 1897, 1965; reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: H. J. Hagen. 1886. Die geologischen Verhältnisse im Arbeitsgebiete der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Nürnberg [The geological conditions in the working areas of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg]. Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg 8:1-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 97830: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 31.08.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet.
"plant residues"
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
Plateosauridae indet. Marsh 1895 plateosaurid