"Jächklinge", Bl. 7420: Rhaetian, Germany
collected by R. Pfizenmayer 1864

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Pachysaurus magnus n. sp. Huene 1905
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
GPIT D = GPIT-PV-60298, 60173 to 60176, 60182
Reptilia - Plateosauridae
Plateosaurus quenstedti n. sp. Huene 1905
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Plateosaurus
GPIT A = GPIT-PV-60296
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 9.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.1° North, 10.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Keuper Formation:Trossingen Member:Knollenmergel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: middle Upper Keuper, upper Norian, Knollenmergel
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:R. Pfizenmayer Collection dates:1864
Collection method comments: "Found in 1864 in the localities of Jächklinge, near Pfrondorf (Quenstedt 1864: p. 308) found by Mr. Revierförster Pfizenmayer. The field designation “Gecht” could also mean “Gechtbach”, which flows into “Tiefenbach” and most likely formed the Bradklinge."
Metadata
Also known as:Brandklinge, Pfrondorf, Tübingen
Database number:48687
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-28 08:53:04 Last modified:2023-04-03 15:48:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-28 08:53:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16920.ETE F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

12781ETE P. M. Galton. 1984. Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel (Middle Keuper, Upper Triassic) of Germany. I. Two complete skulls from Trossingen/Württ. with comments on the diet. Geologica et Palaeontologica 18:139-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25716ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Actas de Las I Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno, Salas de Los Infantes, Burgos, Spain, September 1999. Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico de Salas, C.A.S. 25-92 [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]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
71512 M. Schmidt. 1938. Die Lebewelt Unserer Trias. Nachtrag 1938 [The Living World of Our Triassic. 1938 Supplement] 1-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68165 R. Seemann. 1933. Das Saurischerlager in den Keupermergeln bei Trossingen [The saurischian deposit in the Keupermergel near Trossingen]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 89:129-161 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61599 H. Thürach. 1889. Uebersicht über die Gliederung des Keupers im nördlichen Franken im Vergleiche zu den Benachbarten Gegenden [Survey of the structure of the Keupers in northern Franconia in comparison with neighboring regions]. Geognostische Jahreshefte 2:1-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]