Hinterer Steinberg: Norian, Germany
collected by L. Wunder, Heller 1800, 1922
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plateosauridae
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Teratosaurus suevicus
Meyer 1861
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13 elements | |||||||||
| NHGN postcranial material (vertebrae, tibia, partial fibula), all destroyed during WW2; UEN, bone fragment in two pieces | ||||||||||
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= Prosauropoda indet.
Huene 1920
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Galton 1984 | |||||||||
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= Plateosauridae indet.
Marsh 1895
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Moser 2003 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bayern | County: | Nürnberger Land |
| Coordinates: | 49.5° North, 11.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 11.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| 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: | Feuerletten |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Material probably collected from the "Plateosaurus-Konglomerat", part of the Feuerletten (equivalent to the Trossingen Formation), upper Middle Keuper, although listed (probably in error) by von Huene as from the "Semionotus-Sandstein" (=Burgsandstein = Löwenstein Formation) (see Moser 2003). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | L. Wunder, Heller | Collection dates: | 1800s, 1922 |
| Collection method comments: NHGN: Naturhistorisches Gesellschaft Nürnberg
UEN: Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 97819 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-08-31 05:12:35 | Last modified: | 2018-02-20 16:07:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-08-31 05:12:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10510. | F. v. Huene. 1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europäischen Triasformation mit berücksichtigung der Ausseuropäischen vorkommnisse [The dinosaurs of the European Triassic formations with consideration of occurrences outside Europe]. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen Suppl. 1(1):1-419 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 4409 | 5% 26260 | P. M. Galton. 1984. An early prosauropod dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of Nordwürttemberg, West Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B: Geologie und Paläontologie 106:1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
| 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] |