Lauf: Norian, Germany
collected by Blanckenhorn, Zürlick 1880, 1897, 1965

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. (Haeckel 1866)
Dehm 1935
"plant residues"
Reptilia - Plateosauridae
Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer 1837
Blanckenhorn 1898 1 element
    = Plateosauridae indet. Marsh 1895
Dehm 1935
BSP 1965 X 92, fibula
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bayern County:Nürnberger Land
Coordinates: 49.5° North, 11.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 11.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Keuper Formation:Trossingen Member:Feuerletten
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: No stratigraphic data provided by Moser (2003), but BSPG specimen label indicates that is from the "Plateosaurus-Konglomerat", part of the Feuerletten (equivalent to the Trossingen Formation), upper Middle Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:BSP
Collectors:Blanckenhorn, Zürlick Collection dates:1880s, 1897, 1965
Metadata
Also known as:Nürnberg
Database number:97830
Authorizer:R. Butler, M. Carrano Enterer:R. Butler, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-08-31 07:54:48 Last modified:2018-02-20 16:02:36
Access level:the public Released:2010-08-31 07:54:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62945. H. J. Hagen. 1886. Die geologischen Verhältnisse im Arbeitsgebiete der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Nürnberg [The geological conditions in the working areas of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg]. Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg 8:1-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

54344 M. Blanckenhorn. 1898. Saurierfunde im Fränkischen Keuper [Saurian finds in the Franconian Keuper]. Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen 29:68-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
44840 R. Dehm. 1935. Beobachtungen im oberen Bunten Keuper Mittelfrankens [Observations on the upper Bunter Keuper from middle Franconia]. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B: Geologie und Paläontologie 1935(4):97-109 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33788 M. Moser. 2003. Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) aus dem Feuerletten (Mittelkeuper; Obertrias) von Bayern. Zitteliana B 24:1-188 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]