Löwenstein Formation
Clash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP | Löwenstein Formation Stratigraphic range: Norian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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The Löwenstein Formation (Stubensandstein in Baden-Württemberg, Burgsandstein in Bavaria) is a lithostratigraphic formation of the Keuper in Germany. It is underlain by the Mainhardt Formation and overlain by the Trossingen Formation. It dates back to the middle Norian.[1]
Contents
1 Vertebrate fauna
1.1 Dinosaurs
2 See also
3 Footnotes
4 References
Vertebrate fauna
- * Ceratodus elegans Vollrath, 1923, a lungfish from the Stubensandstein[2]
Dinosaurs
Theropod tracks and an unnamed herrersaur genus are known from the Lower Stubensandstein.[3]
Color key
| Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Dinosaurs and Archosaurs of the Stubensandstein | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
Dolichosuchus[4] | D. cristatus[4] |
| "Tibia."[5] | Actually indeterminate ceratosaur remains.[4] |  Procompsognathus  Life restoration of Plateosaurus gracilis, formerly known as Sellosaurus gracilis | |
Halticosaurus[4] | H. longotarsus[4] |
| "Mandibular fragment, vertebrae, humerus, illium, femur, metatarsal."[5] | Actually indeterminate ceratosaur remains.[4] | ||
Plateosaurus | P. giganteus | "Broad Lizard."[6] | ||||
Palaeosaurus[4] | P. diagnosticus [4] |
| Actually Sellosaurus gracilis remains. Yates assigned the type material of Sellosaurus gracilis to Plateosaurus gracilis [7] | |||
Procompsognathus[4] | P. triassicus[4] |
| "Partial postcranial skeleton."[8] | |||
Sellosaurus[9] | S. fraasi[4] |
| Yates assigned the type material of Sellosaurus gracilis to Plateosaurus gracilis [7] | |||
S. gracilis[9] |
| "[Twenty one] partial skeletons, isolated elements, [three] partial skulls, juvenile to adult."[6] | Yates assigned the type material of Sellosaurus gracilis to Plateosaurus gracilis [7] | |||
Teratosaurus[4] | T. minor[4] |
| Galton and Benton showed that Teratosaurus is actually a rauisuchian.[10][11] | |||
T. trossingensis[4] |
| Galton and Benton showed that Teratosaurus is actually a rauisuchian.[10][11] | ||||
Thecodontosaurus[4] | T. hermannianus[4] |
| Thecodontosaurus hermannianus was named by Huene (1905), and then recombined as Sellosaurus hermannianus by Huene (1914). Smith and Pol (2007) recombined it as Plateosaurus gracilis[12] | |||
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
^ Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, Europe)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 521–525. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
^ Ceratodus elegans n. sp. aus dem Stubensandstein. P Vollrath, Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen …, 1923
^ ab "17.2 Baden-Wurrtemberg, Germany; 1. Lower Stubensandstein," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 524.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy "17.2 Baden-Wurrtemberg, Germany; 2. Middle Stubensandstein," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 524.
^ ab "Table 3.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 50.
^ ab "Table 12.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 236.
^ abc Yates, A.M. (2003). "Species taxonomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Löwenstein Formation (Norian, Late Triassic) of Germany". Palaeontology 46 (2): 317–337
^ "Table 3.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 48.
^ ab "17.2 Baden-Wurrtemberg, Germany; '1. Lower Stubensandstein' and '2. Middle Stubensandstein,'" in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 524.
^ ab Galton, P. M. (1985). "The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus von Meyer, plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, B, 116: 1-29.
^ ab Benton, M.J. (1986). "The late Triassic reptile Teratosaurus - a rauisuchian, not a dinosaur". Palaeontology 29: 293-301.
^ N. D. Smith and D. Pol. 2007. Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52(4):657-674
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.