Hoheneck: Longobardian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Mastodonsaurus giganteus
(Jaeger 1828)
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Schoch 1999 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
| SMNS 740, palate. SMNS 4194, skull roof | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Zanclodon crenatus
(Plieninger 1846)
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Huene 1914 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Eosauropterygia
- Nothosauridae
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Nothosaurus sp.
Münster 1834
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Rieppel 1994 | |||||||||
| BMNH 38669 (right clavicle and scapula from Lettenkeuper; Rieppel 1994, fig. 53A) | ||||||||||
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Nothosaurus mirabilis
Münster 1834
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Rieppel and Wild 1996 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| BSP 1952 XV 108 (mandible); SMNS uncatalogued (snout fragment; Fraas 1896, p. 12, as Nothosaurus cuvieri); SMNS 17291 (snout fragment) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Nothosauria
- Simosauridae
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Simosaurus guilielmi n. sp.
Meyer 1847
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Rieppel 1994 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| synonym of Simosaurus gaillardoti | ||||||||||
| SMNS 16700 (holotype skull) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Placodontia
- Placochelyidae
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Psephosaurus suevicus n. gen., n. sp.
Fraas 1896
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Fraas 1896 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus guilielmi n. sp.
Meyer and Plieninger 1844
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Baden-Württemberg | County: | Ludwigsburg |
| Coordinates: | 48.9° North, 9.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.9° North, 17.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Ladinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Longobardian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 239.70000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Erfurt | Member: | Upper Lettenkeuper | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Hohenecker Kalk of the Upper Lettenkeuper; now formally the Erfurt Formation of the Lower Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296). This locality is Longobardian (late Ladinian) in age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: "this formation has been interpreted as representing an estuarine environment, supported by the frequent succession of very shallow marine, limnic/brackish swamp, and deltaic deposits" (Schoch 2006: JVP 26, 29) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SMNS |
Metadata
| Database number: | 106357 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano, R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano, R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-03-11 07:59:40 | Last modified: | 2019-07-15 09:54:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-11 07:59:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69415. | H. v. Meyer and T. Plieninger. 1844. Beiträge zur Paläontologie Württemberg’s, enthaltend die Fossilen Wirbelthierreste aus den Triasgebilden mit Besonderer Rücksicht auf die Labyrinthodonten des Keupers [Contributions to the Paleontology of Württemberg, Including the Fossil Vertebrate Remains from the Triassic Formations with Special Regard to the Labyrinthodonts of the Keupers] 1-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 43878 | E. Fraas. 1896. Die Schwäbischen Trias-Saurier nach dem Material der Kgl. Naturalien-Sammlung in Stuttgart zusammengestellt [Swabian Triassic dinosaurs based on the material in the Royal Natural History Collection compiled in Stuttgart]. Festgabe des Königlichen Naturalien-Cabinets In Stuttgart zur 42 Versammlung der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, August 1896. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlag-handlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart 1-18 [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] | |
| 44166 | O. Rieppel. 1994. Osteology of Simosaurus gaillardoti and the relationships of stem-group Sauropterygia. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 28:1-85 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 44168 | O. Rieppel and R. Wild. 1996. A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 34:1-82 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 33823 | R. R. Schoch. 1999. Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 278:1-170 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |