Leitenäcker II, Michelbach an der Bilz (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandige Pflanzenschiefer Member (Erfurt Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• "Sandige Pflanzenschiefer, lower Lettenkeuper (Lower Keuper or Erfurt Formation)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, blue, argillaceous marl

• "gray to grayish-blue marls and clay marls"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by H. Hagdorn in 1980; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: J. A. Hopson and H.-D. Sues. 2006. A traversodont cynodont from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 80(2):124-129 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99426: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Nanogomphodon wildi n. gen. n. sp.
Nanogomphodon wildi n. gen. n. sp. Hopson and Sues 2006 cynodont
SMNS 51962, left lower postcanine tooth