Lustnau Gipskeuper near Tübingen: Carnian, Germany
collected by Mr Walter Reiff and Friedrich Freiherr von Huene 1934, 1937
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Placodontia
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Henodus chelyops n. gen., n. sp.
Huene 1936
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7 individuals | |||||||||
| Two specimen reported by von Huene (1936); a third by von Huene (1938); and a total of eight mentioned by (including seven skulls) by Rieppel (2001) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 9.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 20.7° North, 15.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Carnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Carnian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 237 - 227 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Keuper | Formation: | Grabfeld | Member: | Estherienschichten |
| Stratigraphy comments: Estherienschichten, uppermost Gipskeuper, lower Carnian, Upper Triassic
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,dolomitic,gypsiferous,gray marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Both skeletons were parallel to each other with the head to the southeast in the same bank, only a few meters apart. In the gray gypsum marls 2.7 m below the Schilfsandstein, both skeletons were wrapped into one large flat dolomite concretion, from which only the tail sticking out. But in both cases the tail end sticking out from the rock face and also had therefore been largely destroyed. Copy of 1 nor were small tail parts found in the rubble at the foot of the cliff" (translation of von Huene 1936, p. 99) | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Mr Walter Reiff and Friedrich Freiherr von Huene | Collection dates: | 1934, 1937 |
| Collection method comments: First two specimens found in January 1934; third specimen found five metres east in autumn 1937 | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 138252 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-01-08 06:30:42 | Last modified: | 2018-02-20 16:11:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-01-08 06:30:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44389. | F. F. v. Huene. 1936. Henodus chelyops, ein neuer placodontier. Sonder-Abduck aus Palaeontographica Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorzeit, Abteilung A 84:99-148 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
| 44207 | O. Rieppel. 2001. The cranial anatomy of Placochelys placodonta Jaekel, 1902, and a review of the Cyamodontoidea (Reptilia, Placodonta). Fieldiana: Geology, new series 45:1-104 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |