Oberbettingen bei Hillesheim, Eifelosaurus holotype: Aegean - Bithynian, Germany

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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Rhynchocephalia
1 specimen
Articulated partial skeleton including dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, partial pelvis and femora. Specimen in Goldfuß-Museum of the University of Bonn
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Rheinland-Pfalz County:Vulkaneifel
Coordinates: 50.3° North, 6.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.5° North, 26.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Aegean - Bithynian
Age range of interval: 246.7 - 244.24 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Upper Buntsandstein
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Listed as "Oberer? Buntsandstein" (Upper Buntsandstein) by Krebs (1969: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 62:697-714). Upper Buntsandstein is early Anisian in age (Kozur & Bachmann 2008 Berichte Geol. B.-A., 76)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:134292
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-10-05 17:07:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-05 17:07:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

43192. O. Jaekel. 1904. Über ein neues Reptil aus dem Buntsandstein der Eifel. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 56:90-94 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]