Degerloch, Stuttgart: Norian, Germany
collected by Plieninger 1847

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Belodon sp. Meyer 1844
1 individual
SMNS 80664
    = Gresslyosaurus plieningeri n. sp. Huene 1905
Huene 1905
SMNS 80664
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48.8° North, 9.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.8° North, 10.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Keuper Formation:Trossingen Member:Knollenmergel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Knollenmergel, upper Middle Keuper, late Norian; 10 feet above P. reinigeri type stratum
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular marl
Secondary lithology:coarse sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:delta plain
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:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Plieninger Collection dates:1847
Metadata
Database number:48691
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-28 10:40:37 Last modified:2023-01-10 12:57:46
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-28 10:40:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
53426. T. Plieninger. 1850. Prof. Dr. Plieninger, welcher schon zuvor erklärt hatte, nur dann Einiges zur Sprache bringen zu wollen, wenn nach Anhörung der Vorträge auswärtiger Mitglieder noch Zeit übrig wäre, berührte in freiem Vortrag, den er später geschrieben zu den Akten gab, zuletzt noch folgende Gegenstände [Prof. Dr. Plieninger, who had already previously explained that he only would talk about certain things if there was enough time after listening to the presentations by outside members, touched on the following subjects in an informal presentation, of which he subsequently deposited a written record in the archives]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 8:161-172 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13645ETE W. A. Clemens. 1980. Rhaeto-Liassic mammals from Switzerland and West Germany. Zitteliana 5:51-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
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]
16920ETE F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]
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]
24930ETE D. Sigogneau-Russell and G. Hahn. 1994. Late Triassic microvertebrates from central Europe. In N. C. Fraser & H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 197-213 [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]