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Muschelkalk - Trochitenkalk, Germany

GroupMuschelkalk
FormationTrochitenkalk
Member(s)Crailsheim
Age:242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic
IntervalIllyrian
Lithologylimestone
Number of Collections4
Number of Occurrences11

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Bundenbach - EschenbachOstalbkreis, Stuttgart Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMuschelkalk - Trochitenkalk - Crailsheim
Nusslocher ZementbruchNußloch, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMuschelkalk - Trochitenkalk
Krahenhiitte quarryWeimarer Land, Thuringia, GermanyMuschelkalk - Trochitenkalk
K. Majer quarry in GundelsheimHeilbronn, Stuttgart Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMuschelkalk - Trochitenkalk
Quarries at Esselbronn stationKarlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyMuschelkalk - Trochitenkalk

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Hunsrueck Slate409 - 403 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
slate, sandstone264
Muschelkalk - Trochitenkalk - Crailsheim247 - 237 Ma
Triassic
carbonate2

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Gyrolepis albertii
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Palaeonisciformes : Palaeoniscidae : Gyrolepis : Gyrolepis albertii247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Colobodus koenigi
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Perleidiformes : Colobodontidae : Colobodus : Colobodus koenigi247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Colobodus maximus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Perleidiformes : Colobodontidae : Colobodus : Colobodus maximus247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Dollopterus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Perleidiformes : Dollopterus247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Lariosaurus buzzii
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Nothosauridae : Lariosaurus : Lariosaurus buzzii242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic
Nothosaurus giganteus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Nothosauridae : Nothosaurus : Nothosaurus giganteus242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic
Nothosaurus juvenilis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Nothosauridae : Nothosaurus : Nothosaurus juvenilis247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Nothosaurus marchicus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosauropterygia : Nothosauridae : Nothosaurus : Nothosaurus marchicus242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic
Placodus gigas
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Placodontidae : Placodus : Placodus gigas242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic
Pistosaurus longaevus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pistosauridae : Pistosaurus : Pistosaurus longaevus242 - 237 Ma
Middle Triassic
Serpianotiaris sp.
genus
6Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Cidaroida : Serpianotiaridae : Serpianotiaris247.2 - 237 Ma
Triassic
Triadotiaris sp.
genus
6Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Triadotiaridae : Triadotiaris247.2 - 237 Ma
Triassic
Flexoptychites angustoumbilicatus
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Ptychitidae : Flexoptychites : Flexoptychites angustoumbilicatus247.2 - 242 Ma
Triassic

References

Stolley E. (1919) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Ganoiden des deutschen Muschelkalks, Palaeontographica 63, 25-86
Hagdorn H. (1995) Die Seeigel des Germanischen Oberen Muschelkalks, Geologische und Paläontologische Mitteilungen, Innsbruck 20, 245-281
Rieppel O. (1995) The status of the sauropterygian reptile Nothosaurus juvenilis from the Middle Triassic of Germany, Palaeontology 37 4, 733-745
Rieppel O. (1995) The genus Placodus: systematics, morphology, paleobiogeography, and paleobiology, Fieldiana: Geology, new series 31, 1-44
Rieppel O., Wild R. (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
Urlichs M., Kurzweil W. (1997) Erstnachweis von Flexoptychites (Ammonoidea) aus dem Oberen Muschelkalk (Mitteltrias) Nordwürttembergs, Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 253, 1-8
Diedrich C. G. (2014) Marine Lariosaurus (Sauropterygia) records from the Middle Triassic Germanic Basin – stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic importance for Tethyan and Germanic Basin correlation, Albertiana 42, 22-32
Surmik D., Rothschild B. M., et al (2017) Two types of bone necrosis in the Middle Triassic Pistosaurus longaevus bones: the results of integrated studies, Royal Society Open Science 4 7, 170204 doi:10.1098/rsos.170204
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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