Bremketal, east of Reinhausen: Spathian, Germany
collected 1871
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ctenosaurus koeneni n. gen., n. sp.
Huene 1902
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1 individual | |||||||||
| GZG.V.4191, partial vertebral column including parts of three cervical vertebrae, at least 13 or 14 dorsal vertebrae, three sacral vertebrae, nine anterior caudal vertebrae, five partial cervical ribs, eight partial dorsal ribs, unidentified bone fragments that may represent part of the pectoral girdle. Preserved as four sandstone blocks that together comprise the part and counterpart. | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Niedersachsen | County: | Göttingen |
| Coordinates: | 51.5° North, 10.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.3° North, 29.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 230 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Spathian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 248.1 - 246.7 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 247.5 Ma (astronomical) to 247.2 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Middle Buntsandstein | Formation: | Solling | Member: | Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: “Solling-Bausandstein” (“Solling building sandstone”), upper Middle Buntsandstein (“Bunter”), Solling Formation (equivalent to the Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds). The lower part of the Solling Formation (Wilhelmshausen Beds, Trendelburg Beds and Karlshafen Beds) consists of coarse fluvial deposits that are dated on the basis of palynomorphs, conchostracans and palaeomagnetic data as latest Olenekian (late Spathian).
Based upon radiometric estimates for the Olenekian–Anisian boundary (247.2 Ma) and data on the number of short eccentricity Milankovitch cycles present within the Solling Formation, Kozur & Bachmann (2005, 2008) inferred a date of ~247.5 Ma for the base of the Solling. This would suggest an age of approximately 247.5–247.2 Ma (latest Olenekian) for the holotype specimen of Ctenosauriscus (Butler et al. 2011) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "subarkose, predominantly greyish coloured" (Butler et al. 2011) | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: environment dominated by a meandering to braided river system with a north trending direction (Butler et al. 2011) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1871 |
| Collection method comments: GZG, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Bremke Dell | ||
| Database number: | 109489 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-05-17 18:32:19 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-05-17 18:32:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31892. | ETE | F. v. Huene. 1902. Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias [Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic]. Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 6:1-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 37542 | R. J. Butler, S. L. Brusatte, M. Reich, S. J. Nesbitt, R. R. Schoch and J. J. Hornung. 2011. The sail-backed reptile Ctenosauriscus from the latest Early Triassic of Germany and the timing and biogeography of the early archosaur radiation. Plos One 6(10):e25693 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 36191 | F. v. Huene. 1914. Neue Beschreibung von Ctenosaurus aus dem Göttinger Buntsandstein. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 16:496-499 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 36193 | B. Krebs. 1969. Ctenosauriscus koeneni (v. Huene), die Pseudosuchia und die Buntsandstein-Reptilien. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 62:697-714 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] |