Niederschönthal, Liestal: Sevatian, Switzerland
collected by A. Gressly 1856
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Galton 1986 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
"fossil wood" | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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Huene 1911 | |||||||||
Dipnoi
- Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus sp.
Agassiz 1838
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Huene 1911 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Temnospondyli indet.
von Zittel 1887
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Huene 1911 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
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Mystriosuchus ruetimeyeri n. sp.
Huene 1911
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Huene 1911 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria | ||||||||||
Skull fragments, vertebrae, scutes and laterally compressed serrated teeth | ||||||||||
Dinosaurus gresslyi n. gen., n. sp.
(Rütimeyer 1856)
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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
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Rütimeyer 1856 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Plateosauridae
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Plateosauridae indet.
Marsh 1895
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Huene 1911 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
"small" plateosaurid | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Huene 1911 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Placodontia
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Placodontia indet.
Cope 1871
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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:
12799 | ETE | 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] |
12975 | ETE | 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] |
25716 | ETE | 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] |
12994 | ETE | 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] |
34169 | ETE | 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] |
16920 | ETE | F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/T. Liebrecht] |
16924 | ETE | 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] | |
30215 | ETE | 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] | |
34081 | ETE | 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] |
18434 | ETE | 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] |