Also known as Fisseler quarry, Korbacher Spalte, Steinbruch Fisseler
Where: Hesse, Germany (51.3° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 21.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Werra Formation (Zechstein Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; fine-grained, dolomitic, red mudstone and medium-grained, dolomitic, yellow mudstone
•Plant remains coming from "roughly coeval strata [...] belong to the Callipterys-conifer asociation (sensu Schweitzer 1986), and their anatomical features indicate a dry semi-arid climate."
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,
• "Individual specimens were prepared using needles ground from rods of tungsten carbide and dental drills after application of commercially available cyanoacrylate glues to consolidate the fossils. Attempts to dissolve small samples of the fossiliferous matrix in diluted (5%) acetic acid yielded only small pieces of indeterminate bone. The fragmentary state of preservation of many bones prevents their identification."
Primary reference: H. D. Sues and W. Munk. 1996. A remarkable assemblage of terrestrial tetrapods from the Zechstein (Upper Permian: Tatarian) near Korbach (northwestern Hesse). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 70(1/2):213-223 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84836: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 14.11.2008, edited by Bryan Gee
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
cf. Parasaurus geinitzi von Meyer 1857 parareptile | |
cf. Protorosaurus sp. Meyer 1830 archosauromorph | |
Captorhinidae indet. Case 1911 eureptile | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Dicynodontia indet. Owen 1859 dicynodont | |
Hassiacoscutum munki n. gen. n. sp.
Hassiacoscutum munki n. gen. n. sp. Witzmann et al. 2019 tetrapod SMNK-PAL 9104 (holotype): osteoderm
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