Swäbisch Hall, Gaildorf: Ladinian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Smilodon crenatus Plieninger 1846
1 specimen
misspelling Zanclodon crenatus
tooth
Smilodon laevis n. gen., n. sp. Plieninger 1846
1 specimen
recombined as Zanclodon laevis
lectotype only; SMNS 6045, maxilla
Reptilia - Tanystropheidae
? Tanystropheus sp. von Meyer 1852
Galton 2001 1 element
Caudal vertebra, removed from syntype of Z. laevis
Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus sp. Münster 1834
Galton 2001 1 element
Dorsal vertebra, removed from syntype of Z. laevis
Reptilia - Placodontia
? Placodontia indet. (Cope 1871)
Galton 2001 4 elements
Dermal armour, removed from syntype of Z. laevis
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 9.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.3° North, 17.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Ladinian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Keuper Formation:Erfurt Member:Lower Lettenkeuper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lettenkohle (= Lower Lettenkeuper or lower Erfurt Formation). Erfurt Formation is Ladinian in age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Zanclodon type site, Schwäbisch
Database number:48685
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-28 08:25:07 Last modified:2023-01-10 12:47:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-28 08:25:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28965.ETE T. Plieninger. 1846. Über ein neues Sauriergenus und die Einreihung der Saurier mit flachen, schneidenden Zähnen in Eine Familie [On a new saurian genus and incorporating the saurian with flat, cutting teeth into a family]. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 2:148-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

12994ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20(2):435-502 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25716ETE P. M. Galton. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Actas de Las I Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno, Salas de Los Infantes, Burgos, Spain, September 1999. Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico de Salas, C.A.S. 25-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16920ETE F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69418 F. A. Quenstedt. 1856. Sonst und Jetzt. Populäre Vorträge über Geologie [Other and Now. Popular Lectures on Geology] viii-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
83610 O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg. 2022. A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72:771-822 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35657 R. R. Schoch. 2011. New archosauriform remains from the German Lower Keuper. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 260:87-100 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]