Kössig quarry, Rotfelden (Triassic to of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.6° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 19.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Violet Horizon 5 Member (Röt Formation), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Kücher, D. Ortlam in 1967; reposited in the SMNS

• Material in SMNS and collections of Badische Landessammlungen für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe

Primary reference: D. Ortlam. 1967. Fossile Böden als Leithorizonte für die Gliederung des Höheren Buntsandsteins im nördlichen Schwarzwald und südlichen Odenwald. Geologisches Jahrbuch 84:485-590 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 134304: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.10.2012, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Eocyclotosaurus woschmidti n. sp.2
Eocyclotosaurus woschmidti n. sp.2 Ortlam 1970 tetrapod
SMNS 51562 (holotype), skull
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Amotosaurus rotfeldensis n. gen. n. sp.1, Amotosaurus rotfeldensis1
Amotosaurus rotfeldensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Fraser and Rieppel 2006 archosauromorph
Amotosaurus rotfeldensis1 Fraser and Rieppel 2006 archosauromorph
1Fraser and Rieppel 2006; 2Schoch and Werneburg 1999