Altenstein, Marolsweisach: Rhaetian, Germany
collected by F. Sandberger 1884

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Belodon sp. Meyer 1844
3 specimens
    = Zanclodon bavaricus n. sp. Sandberger 1894
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]
25608ETE 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]
12994ETE 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]