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Middle Buntsandstein, Germany

GroupMiddle Buntsandstein
Formation(s)Eichsfeld Sandstein
Hardegsen
Hardegsen Sandstone
Volpriehausen
Age:251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
IntervalSmithian
Lithologysandstone, "siliciclastic"
Number of Collections4
Number of Occurrences4

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
ReuriethHildburghausen District, Thuringia, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Solling - Chirotherien Sandstein
Mittelberg bei CoburgUpper Franconia, Bavaria, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Solling - Chirotherien Sandstein
WipperbrückeBernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein
BremketalGöttingen District, Lower Saxony, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Solling - Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds
KrebeckGöttingen District, Lower Saxony, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen
Roadcut between Aichelberg and Castle FautsburgBad Wildbad, Calw, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Volpriehausen
HerzogenweilerFreudenstadt, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen - Kristallsandstein
HafnerwegCalw, Calw, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen
Waldkatzenbach am KatzenbuckelKarlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen - Oberes Konglomerat
HallwangenFreudenstadt, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen - Kristallsandstein
Nagold valleyKarlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein
Bad TeinachKarlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein
QueckVogelsbergkreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Eichsfeld Sandstein
Heimarshausen near NaumburgKassel, Kassel Region, Hesse, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen Sandstone
HelgolandPinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Volpriehausen
BernburgBernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Solling - Chirotherium Sandstone
VachaWartburg District, Thuringia, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein
Merkel's Quarry Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, GermanyMiddle Buntsandstein - Solling - Solling-Bausandstein

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Upper Buntsandstein247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
sandstone5
Lower Buntsandstein - Bernburg - Eck Conglomerate252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic
conglomerate1
Middle Buntsandstein - Eichsfeld Sandstein251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone1
Middle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone2
Middle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen - Kristallsandstein251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone, breccia2
Middle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen - Oberes Konglomerat251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
1
Middle Buntsandstein - Hardegsen Sandstone251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone1
Middle Buntsandstein - Solling - Chirotherien Sandstein247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
sandstone2
Middle Buntsandstein - Solling - Chirotherium Sandstone247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
sandstone2
Middle Buntsandstein - Solling - Solling-Bausandstein251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone3
Middle Buntsandstein - Solling - Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone1
Middle Buntsandstein - Volpriehausen251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
sandstone2
Upper Buntsandstein - Röt247 - 242 Ma
Triassic
sandstone, claystone8

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Capitosauria
unranked clade
99Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Capitosauria251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Meyerosuchus fuerstenbergianus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Meyerosuchus : Meyerosuchus fuerstenbergianus251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Odenwaldia heidelbergensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Odenwaldia : Odenwaldia heidelbergensis251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Capitosaurus helgolandiae
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Parotosuchus : Capitosaurus helgolandiae251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Capitosaurus nasutus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Parotosuchus : Capitosaurus nasutus251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Stereospondyli
unranked clade
99Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Laccocephalus : Stereospondyli251.2 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Sclerothorax hypselonotus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Sclerothoracidae : Sclerothorax : Sclerothorax hypselonotus251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Trematosaurus brauni
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Trematosauridae : Trematosaurus : Trematosaurus brauni251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Trematosaurus thuringiensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Trematosauridae : Trematosaurus : Trematosaurus thuringiensis251.2 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Ctenosaurus koeneni
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Ctenosauriscidae : Ctenosauriscus : Ctenosaurus koeneni251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Parasuchus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Parasuchidae : Parasuchus251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Anomoiodon liliensterni
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Procolophonidae : Anomoiodon : Anomoiodon liliensterni247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Procolophonidae : Koiloskiosaurus : Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Trachelosaurus fischeri
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Trachelosaurus : Trachelosaurus fischeri247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Proterosuchia
suborder
4.3Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Proterosuchia251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Pleuromeia sternbergii
species
7Plantae : Pteridophyta : Lycopsida : Isoetales : Pleuromeiaceae : Pleuromeia : Pleuromeia sternbergii251.3 - 247.2 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

References

Meyer H. v. , Zur Fauna der Vorwelt. Die Saurier des Muschelkalkes mit Rücksicht auf die Saurier aus Buntem Sandstein und Keuper [The Fauna of the Ancient World. The Saurians of the Muschelkalk with Regard to the Saurians of the Buntem Sandstone and Keuper], viii-167
Huene F. v. (1902) Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias [Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic], Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 6, 1-84
Huene F. v. (1911) Ueber die Procolophoniden, mit einer neuen Form aus dem Buntsandstein, Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1911, 78-83
Schroeder H. (1913) Ein Stegocephalen-Schädel von Helgoland, Jahrbuch der Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 33, 232-264
Broili F., Fischer E. (1917) Trachelosaurus fischeri nov. gen. nov. sp. Ein neuer Saurier aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg, Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin 37 1, 359-414
Huene F. v. (1932) Ein neuartiger Stegocephalen-Fund aus dem oberhessischen Buntsandstein [A new stegocephalian specimen from the Upper Hesse Buntsandstein], Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 14, 200-229
Charig A. J., Sues H.-D. (1976) Suborder Proterosuchia Broom 1906b, Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie 13, 11-39
Morales M., Kamphausen D. (1984) Odenwaldia heidelbergensis, a new benthosuchid stegocephalian from the Middle Buntsandstein of the Odenwald, Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1984 11, 673-683
Hunt A. P., Lucas S. G. (1991) The Paleorhinus biochron and the correlation of the non-marine Upper Triassic of Pangaea, Palaeontology 34 2, 487-501
Werneburg R. (1993) Trematosaurus (Amphibia) aus dem Mittleren Buntsandstein (Untertrias) von Thüringen, Veröffentlichungen des Naturhistorischen Museums Schleusingen 7/8, 17-29
Schoch R. R., Fastnacht M., et al (2007) Anatomy and relationships of the Triassic temnospondyl Sclerothorax, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 1, 117-136
Säilä L. K. (2008) The Osteology and Affinities of Anomoiodon liliensterni, a Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Germany, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 4, 1199-1205
Schoch R. R. (2011) How diverse is the temnospondyl fauna in the Lower Triassic of southern Germany?, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 261, 49-60
Schoch R. R. (2018) The temnospondyl Parotosuchus nasutus (v. Meyer, 1858) from the Early Triassic Middle Buntsandstein of Germany, Palaeodiversity 11, 107-126 doi:10.18476/pale.11.a6
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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