Bl. 7240, Bebenhausen, Rothen Graben: Norian, Germany
collected by F. Tscherning 1870

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Gresslyosaurus robustus n. sp. Huene 1905
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Prosauropoda
GPIT-PV-60293 (= GPIT B)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48.6° North, 9.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 10.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:388 meters
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, upper Norian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:F. Tscherning Collection dates:1870
Collection method comments: GPIT: Paläontologische Sammlung der Universität Tübingen
"Found during a construction site at Roter Graben near Bebenhausen in 1870, when Forstrat Tscherning collected and sent them for study to Quenstedt (von Huene 1907: 127)."
Metadata
Also known as:Roter Graben
Database number:48692
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-28 10:48:52 Last modified:2023-04-03 15:41:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-28 10:48:52
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:

44535 M. J. Benton and R. Wild. 1994. Localities in Baden-Württemberg that have yielded Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapod remains. Paleontologia Lombarda, Nuova Serie 2:35-38 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]
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]
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]
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]
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]