Baiselsberg tracksite: Norian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
cf. Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
1 individual
"The trackmaker is similar to Procompsognathus"
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 9.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.0° North, 10.2° 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:Löwenstein
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Middle Keuper, Norian km4; originally Untere Stubensandstein, now = upper part of Löwenstein Fm., upper Norian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:50302
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-05-12 08:20:21 Last modified:2018-02-20 15:53:22
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-12 08:20:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13507.ETE F.-O. Haderer. 1988. Ein dinosauroider Fährtenrest aus dem Unteren Stubensandstein (Obere Trias, Nor, km4) des Strombergs (Württemberg) [A dinosauroid trackway from the Lower Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic, Norian, km4) of the Stromberg (Württemberg)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 138:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]