Niederschönthal, Liestal: Sevatian, Switzerland
collected by A. Gressly 1856

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Galton 1986 3 specimens
"fossil wood"
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Huene 1911
Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838
Huene 1911
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Temnospondyli indet. von Zittel 1887
Huene 1911 2 specimens
Reptilia
Mystriosuchus ruetimeyeri n. sp. Huene 1911
Huene 1911
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Skull fragments, vertebrae, scutes and laterally compressed serrated teeth
Dinosaurus gresslyi n. gen., n. sp. (Rütimeyer 1856)
2 individuals
NMB BM 1, 10, 24, 53, 530–1, 1521, 1572–74, 1576–78, 1582, 1584–85, 1591
    = Gresslyosaurus ingens n. gen., n. sp. Rütimeyer 1856
Rütimeyer 1856
Reptilia - Plateosauridae
Plateosauridae indet. Marsh 1895
Huene 1911 12 specimens
"small" plateosaurid
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835
Huene 1911 1 specimen
Reptilia - Placodontia
Placodontia indet. Cope 1871
Huene 1911 4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Basel-Landschaft County:Liestal
Coordinates: 47.5° North, 7.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 10.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:435 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Sevatian
Age range of interval:212.00000 - 205.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Keuper Formation:Knollenmergel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 2.1 m below the Rhät, upper Middle Keuper; referred to the Upper "Zanclodon" Knollenmergel. The Knollenmergel of northern Switzerland is correlated with the Trossingen Formation of southern Germany (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005, Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, Table 6.2, pg. 272) which is considered late Norian (Sevatian) in age (Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005, Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg)

upper Middle Keuper, upper Norian, now = Trossingen Fm. and thus late Norian to Rhaetian age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green,blue conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "40 cm thick bed...that consists of a partly greenish gray and partly dirty violet conglomerate with bone fragments and fossil wood."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Gressly Collection dates:9 Sept 1856
Collection method comments: discovered by Amanz Gressly
Metadata
Database number:47802
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-02 07:03:04 Last modified:2023-01-10 12:46:17
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-02 07:03:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34082.ETE L. Rütimeyer. 1856. [Des Ossements gigantesques de reptiles] [Some gigantic reptile bones]. Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève, Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles 33:53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

12799ETE P. M. Galton. 1986. Prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (= Gresslyosaurus) (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland. Geologica et Palaeontologica 20:167-183 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12975ETE P. M. Galton. 1998. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (Dimodosaurus) poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862) (Upper Triassic, Poligny, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 207(2):255-288 [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]
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]
34169ETE A. Gressly. 1858. Sur les ossements fossiles d'un saurien gigantesque, trouvé dans le canton de Bâle [On the fossil bones of a gigantic saurian, found in Canton Basel]. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel 14:13-14 [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]
16924ETE F. v. Huene. 1911. Die jungtriassische Wirbeltierfauna von Niederschönthal bei Basel [The Upper Triassic vertebrate fauna of Niederschönthal near Basel]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1911:422-424 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35604 F. v. Huene. 1911. Beiträge zur Kenntnes und Beurteiling der Parasuchier. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungen, Neue Folge 10:67-121 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
62966 F. v. Huene. 1914. I: Animalia. Pars 4. Saurischia et Ornithischia triadica (“Dinosauria” triadica). 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30215ETE C. A. Meyer and B. Thüring. 2003. Dinosaurs of Switzerland. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:103-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
22076 F. A. Quenstedt. 1861. Epochen der Natur [Epochs of Nature] vi-853 [G. Webster/G. Webster/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]
34081ETE L. Rütimeyer. 1856. [Fossile Reptilienknochen aus dem Keuper] [Fossil reptile bones from the Keuper]. Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41:62-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18434ETE L. Rütimeyer. 1857. Über die im Keuper zu Liestal bei Basel aufgefundenen Reptilien-Reste von Belodon [On the reptilian remains of Belodon, found in the Keuper at Leistal near Basel]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrfakten-Kunde 1857:141-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71681 F. Schalch and B. Peyer. 1919. Über ein neues Rhätvorkommen im Keuper des Donau-Rheinzuges [On a new occurrence of the Rhaetian in the Keuper of the Danube-Rhine valleys]. Mitteilungen der Badischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 8(21):263-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65673 K. Strübin. 1902. Neue Untersuchungen über Keuper und Lias bei Niederschönthal (Basler Tafeljura) [New investigations on the Keuper and Lias near Niederschönthal (Basel Table Jura)]. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 13:586-602 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53065 D. Umbescheidt. 1978. Ein neuer Dinosaurier-Fund im Schweizer Jura [A new dinosaur find in the Swiss Jura]. Aufschluss 28:255-258 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]