Nusslocher Zementbruch: Illyrian, Germany
collected by R. H. M. Konig

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Nothosaurus juvenilis n. sp. Edinger 1921
Rieppel 1995 1 specimen
recombined as Lariosaurus juvenilis
The holotype and only known specimen is kept in the Palaontologisches und Geologisches Institut und Museum, Universitat Heidelberg (Konig Collection, K.8698-1)
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Colobodus maximus Dames 1888
1 specimen
in private collection of König
Colobodus koenigi n. sp. Stolley 1919
1 specimen
in private collection of König
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Gyrolepis albertii Agassiz 1834
2 specimens
1 at Heidelberg, 1 in private collection of König
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg County:Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 8.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.7° North, 18.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Illyrian
Age range of interval:243.80000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Muschelkalk Formation:Trochitenkalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Muschelkalk (lower Trochitenkalk, mo1)
Lower upper Muschelkalk (Anisian)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:R. H. M. Konig
Collection method comments: Repository: Paläontologisches und Geologisches Institüt und Museum, Universität Heidelberg
Metadata
Also known as:Nußloch
Database number:105185
Authorizer:M. Carrano, M. Clapham Enterer:H. Street, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-02-17 06:47:58 Last modified:2022-11-09 15:50:34
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-17 06:47:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45039. E. Stolley. 1919. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Ganoiden des deutschen Muschelkalks. Palaeontographica 63:25-86 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

35189 O. Rieppel. 1995. The status of the sauropterygian reptile Nothosaurus juvenilis from the Middle Triassic of Germany. Palaeontology 37(4):733-745 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
44168 O. Rieppel and R. Wild. 1996. A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 34:1-82 [R. Benson/R. Benson]