Berlichingen: Ladinian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus mirabilis Münster 1834
1 specimen
SMNS 56286 (skull); plus specimens referred by Rieppel & Wild (1996): SMNS 59360 (mandible)
Nothosaurus ? mirabilis Münster 1834
Rieppel and Wild 1996 1 specimen
An as yet undescribed specimen, perhaps referable to N mirabilis (SMNS 56618)
Nothosaurus giganteus Münster 1834
Rieppel and Wild 1996 1 specimen
SMNS 56273 (vertebra)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 9.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.5° North, 17.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Ladinian Zone: nodosus
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Muschelkalk
Stratigraphy comments: upper Muschelkalk [nodosus biozone]
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Metadata
Database number:138089
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-01-04 21:45:00 Last modified:2022-11-09 16:03:44
Access level:the public Released:2013-01-04 21:45:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]