Where: Bayern, Germany (49.9° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 15.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Benkersandstein Formation (Keuper Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Dates to the Teutonic Triassic; Benker sandstone, equivalent to the Ranfacies of the upper Gipskeupers in Upper Franconia. early Carnian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Collection is two sets of fossil footprints
Primary reference: K. Rehnelt. 1959. Neue Reptilienfährten-Funde aus der germanischen Trias [New reptile footprint discoveries in the German Trias]. Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden 1959:97-103 [J. Hunter/M. Hall/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34535: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Meg Hall on 07.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Coelurosaurichnus "n. sp." Huene 1941 saurischian "n. sp." footprint called "Track Type A" presumed to be a new species
Coelurosaurichnus kronbergeri n. sp. Rehnelt 1959 saurischian footprint found in Plate III, directly underneath Coelurosaurichnus sp. described above
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