Wipperbrücke, Parforcehaus: Smithian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Parasuchidae
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Mesorhinus fraasi n. gen., n. sp.
Jaekel 1910
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1 individual | |||||||||
| Partial skull | ||||||||||
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= Paleorhinus sp.
Williston 1904
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Hunt and Lucas 1991 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Sachsen-Anhalt | County: | Bernburg |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 11.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° North, 30.5° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Smithian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 249.9 - 248.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Middle Buntsandstein | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Jaekel identified the specimen as derived from a horizon at the base of the Middle Buntsandstein, immediately above the contact with the Lower Buntsandstein. If correct, this would indicate an Early Triassic, early Olenekian (Smithian) age. However, it should be noted that most subsequent workers doubt the locality information | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Specimen was formerly in the collections of the University of Göttingen, but was destroyed during World War II | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Mesorhinus holotype site | ||
| Database number: | 97732 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-08-27 01:47:34 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-08-27 01:47:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32736. | ETE | O. Jaekel. 1910. Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg [On a new belodontid from the Buntsandstein of Bernburg]. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1910(5):197-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 33810 | E. Buffetaut. 1993. Phytosaurs in time and space. Paleontologia Lombardia, Nuova serie 2:39-44 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 11840 | ETE,5% 18880 | A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1991. The Paleorhinus biochron and the correlation of the non-marine Upper Triassic of Pangaea. Palaeontology 34(2):487-501 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |