Bromacker Quarry (upper level of Tambach sandstone) (Permian of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (50.8° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 22.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tambach-Sandstein Member (Tambach Formation), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• "At the Bromacker quarry site are two superimposed stratigraphic successions that can be characterized by their facies associations and are referred to as the Lower Beds and Upper Beds (Eberth et al. 2000). All the vertebrates from the Bromacker quarry come from the Upper Beds [...]. The vertebrates are almost exclusively restricted to two [... horizons ...] which are separated by 50 cm in a stratigraphic interval of 1.2 m." (Berman et al., 2001)

•The Tambach Formation is of Artinskian age according to "Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland 2002", however, a Kungurian age is proposed by Lützner (2006) in LITHOLEX stratigraphic online database [http://www.bgr.de/app/LithoLex/gesamt_ausgabe_neu.php5?id=25]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, brown, red sandstone

• "alluvial paleochannel and sheetflood facies and lacustrine suspension deposits" (Berman et al., 2001).

•"During the time that the Lower and Upper beds were deposited, the Tambach Basin was internally-drained and probably characterized by a wet-and-dry tropical or wetter climate that was hot year-round with seasonal-to-subseasonal cycles of rainfall and drying. [...] In the Bromacker area, the floodbasin was never deeply desiccated or heavily vegetated between flooding events." Eberth et al. (2000).

• "massive, red-brown, very fine-grained sandstone and siltstone" (Berman et al., 2001).

•For further details see Eberth et al. (2000).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collected by Schäfer-Gotha in 1887, 1893

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

• MNG = Museum der Natur, Gotha

Primary reference: D.S. Berman, S.S. Sumida, and T. Martens. 1998. Diadectes (Diadectomorpha: Diadectidae) from the Early Permian of Central Germany, with description of a new species. Annals of Carnegie Museum 67(1):53-93 [R. Reisz/D. Mazierski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80112: authorized by Robert Reisz, entered by Robert Reisz on 04.04.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Bethany Allen, Emma Dunne and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
  -
Insecta sp.10 Linnaeus 1758 insect
"family indeterminate, 2-3 undescribed new species"
 Dicondylia - Phyloblattidae
cf. Anthracoblattina sp.10 Scudder 1879 winged insect
Kunguroblattina sp.10 Martynov 1930 winged insect
"Phylloblatta sp." = Phyloblatta10 Handlirsch 1906 winged insect
 Blattodea - Mylacridae
Moravamylacris kukalovae10 Schneider 1980 cockroach
Opsiomylacris sp.10 Haupt 1952 cockroach
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Lioestheriidae
Lioestheria monticula10 Martens 1983 clam shrimp
Myriapoda
  -
Myriapoda sp.10
"family indeterminate, 1-2 undescribed new species"
Amphibia
  -
Amphisauropus sp.14 Haubold 1970 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli -
Dissorophoidea "new sp."10 Bolt 1969 tetrapod
"family indeterminate"
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
Dissorophidae "new sp. "10 Boulenger 1902 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trematopidae
Tambachia trogallas n. gen. n. sp.13, Rotaryus gothae n. gen. n. sp.5
Tambachia trogallas n. gen. n. sp.13 Sumida et al. 1998 tetrapod
MNG 7722 holotype
Rotaryus gothae n. gen. n. sp.5 Berman et al. 2011 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli -
Georgenthalia clavinasica n. gen. n. sp.1
Georgenthalia clavinasica n. gen. n. sp.1 Anderson et al. 2008 tetrapod
MNG 11135 holotype
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Varanopidae
Tambacarnifex unguifalcatus n. gen. n. sp.4 Berman et al. 2014 synapsid
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon teutonis n. sp.8 Berman et al. 2001 synapsid
MNG 10598 holotype
 Caseasauria - Caseidae
Caseidae "new sp."10 Williston 1911 synapsid
Martensius bromackerensis n. gen. n. sp.6 Berman et al. 2020 synapsid
MNG 13814 (Holotype), adult and largest of the specimens, consisting of a nearly complete, well–preserved skeleton preserved in several, closely associated, articulated sections
 Recumbirostra - Brachystelechidae
Bromerpeton subcolossus n. gen. n. sp.9
Bromerpeton subcolossus n. gen. n. sp.9 MacDougall et al. 2024 amniote
Holotype: MNG 16545, a partial skull and mandible with left humerus and largely complete right forelimb
Reptilia
 Eureptilia -
Thuringothyris mahlendorffae n. gen. n. sp.11 Boy and Martens 1991 eureptile
MNG 7729 holotype; MNG 10183, 10647, 10652, 11191 referred specimens
 Bolosauria - Bolosauridae
Eudibamus cursoris n. gen. n. sp.7
Eudibamus cursoris n. gen. n. sp.7 Berman et al. 2000 parareptile
MNG 8852 holotype
  -
Dimetropus sp.14, "Ichnium acrodactylum n. sp." = Dimetropus leisnerianus12
Dimetropus sp.14 Romer and Price 1940 reptile
"Ichnium acrodactylum n. sp." = Dimetropus leisnerianus12 Geintiz 1863 reptile
incl. subspecies alternans, curvata, dispar, and microdactylum; Gotha no. 1760, 1762, 1765–1766, 1823, 1825, 1827–1828, 1838, 1983, 1985–1986
Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria -
"Ichnium brachydactylum" = Gilmoreichnus brachydactylus12
"Ichnium brachydactylum" = Gilmoreichnus brachydactylus12 Pabst 1908 tetrapod
Gotha n. 1841, 1843
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Diadectes absitus n. sp. Berman et al. 1998 tetrapod
MNG 8853 (Holotype: nearly complete articulated skeleton), MNG 8747 (nearly complete skull), MNG 7721 (nearly complete postcranial skeleton), and MNG 8978 (nearly complete but disarticulated postcranial skeleton)
Ichniotherium cottae12 Pohlig 1885 tetrapod
Orobates pabsti n. gen. n. sp.2 Berman et al. 2004 tetrapod
MNG 10181 holotype; MNG 8760, 8980, 11133, 11134 paratypes
 Cotylosauria -
Varanopus sp.14, "Ichnium dolichodactylum" = Varanopus microdactylus12
Varanopus sp.14 Moodie 1929 tetrapod
"Ichnium dolichodactylum" = Varanopus microdactylus12 Pabst 1896 tetrapod
Gotha no. 1785
 Seymouriamorpha - Seymouriidae
Seymouria sanjuanensis3 Vaughn 1966 tetrapod
MNG 7727, 8759, 10553, 10554
 Tetrapoda -
Tambachichnium sp.14 Müller 1954 tetrapod
Ichnium
  -
Ichnium sphaerodactylum n. sp.12 Pabst 1908
Gotha no. 1351–1352, 1367–1371, 1393–1395, 1401 2, 1747–1749, 1814, 1819, 1840