Altenstein, Marolsweisach: Rhaetian, Germany
collected by F. Sandberger 1884
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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cf. Belodon sp.
Meyer 1844
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3 specimens | |||||||||
= Zanclodon bavaricus n. sp.
Sandberger 1894
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Sandberger 1894 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda | ||||||||||
UW | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bayern | County: | Haßberge |
Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 10.7° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 11.1° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 427 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Keuper | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Keuper subgroup according to Galton (2000); found in a dark marl that overlies a dolomite layer, which in turn lies on Keuper red marls. Above the dark marl is yellow Rhaetian sandstone (Rhätsandstein) (Moser 2003:153). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,black,gray "shale" |
Secondary lithology: | dolomite |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "dark slaty marl"; "dark gray shale" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Associated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | core,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | F. Sandberger | Collection dates: | 1884 |
Collection method comments: UW: University of Würzberg |
Metadata
Also known as: | Zanclodon bavaricus type site | ||
Database number: | 48684 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-03-28 08:16:03 | Last modified: | 2023-01-10 12:48:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-28 08:16:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
62418. | F. v. Sandberger. 1884. Bemerkungen über die Grenzregion zwischen Keuper und Lias in Unterfranken [Comments on the border region between the Keuper and Lias in Lower Franconia]. Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, Neue Folge 1884:36-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
54344 | M. Blanckenhorn. 1898. Saurierfunde im Fränkischen Keuper [Saurian finds in the Franconian Keuper]. Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen 29:68-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
25608 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 2000. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus MEYER, 1837 (Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha). I. The syntypes of P. engelhardti MEYER, 1837 (Upper Triassic, Germany), with notes on other European prosauropods with "distally straight" femora. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 216(2):233-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12994 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 2001. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20(2):435-502 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
33788 | 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] | |
83610 | O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg. 2022. A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72:771-822 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
62417 | F. v. Sandberger. 1894. Zanclodon im obersten Keuper Unterfrankens [Zanclodon in the uppermost Keuper of Lower Franconia]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1894(1):203-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |