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Keuper - Benkersandstein, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

GroupKeuper
FormationBenkersandstein
Age:237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
IntervalCarnian
Lithologysandstone
Number of Collections4
Number of Occurrences5

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
BambergBamberg District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, GermanyKeuper - Benkersandstein
Benk bei BayreuthBayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, GermanyKeuper - Benkersandstein
Bayreuth tracksiteBayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, GermanyKeuper - Benkersandstein

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Mastodonsauridae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Mastodonsauridae242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Chirotherium storetonense
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Chirotherium : Chirotherium storetonense237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Coelurosaurichnus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Coelurosaurichnus237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Coelurosaurichnus schlehenbergensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Coelurosaurichnus : Coelurosaurichnus schlehenbergensis237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

References

Münster G. Communications addressed to Professor Bronn, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1836, 580-581
Rehnelt K. (1950) Beitrag über Fährtenspuren im unteren Gipskeuper von Bayreuth [Contribution on the trackways from the lower Gipskeuper of Bayreuth], Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth, Abhandlungen 1950, 27-36
Rehnelt K. (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
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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