Löwenstein Formation
| Löwenstein Formation | |
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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]
Vertebrate fauna
Dinosaurs
Theropod tracks and an unnamed herrersaur genus are known from the Lower Stubensandstein.[2]
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Dinosaurs and Archosaurs of the Stubensandstein | ||||||
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D. cristatus[3] |
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"Tibia."[4] |
Actually indeterminate ceratosaur remains.[3] |
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H. longotarsus[3] |
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"Mandibular fragment, vertebrae, humerus, illium, femur, metatarsal."[4] |
Actually indeterminate ceratosaur remains.[3] | |||
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P. giganteus |
"Partial pedes."[5] |
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P. diagnosticus [3] |
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Actually Sellosaurus gracilis remains. Yates assigned the type material of Sellosaurus gracilis to Plateosaurus gracilis [6] | ||||
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P. triassicus[3] |
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"Partial postcranial skeleton."[7] |
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S. fraasi[3] |
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Yates assigned the type material of Sellosaurus gracilis to Plateosaurus gracilis [6] | ||||
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S. gracilis[8] |
"[Twenty one] partial skeletons, isolated elements, [three] partial skulls, juvenile to adult."[5] |
Yates assigned the type material of Sellosaurus gracilis to Plateosaurus gracilis [6] | ||||
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T. minor[3] |
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Galton and Benton showed that Teratosaurus is actually a rauisuchian.[9][10] | ||||
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T. trossingensis[3] |
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Galton and Benton showed that Teratosaurus is actually a rauisuchian.[9][10] | ||||
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T. hermannianus[3] |
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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[11] | ||||
See also
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.
- ^ a b "17.2 Baden-Wurrtemberg, Germany; 1. Lower Stubensandstein," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 524.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "17.2 Baden-Wurrtemberg, Germany; 2. Middle Stubensandstein," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 524.
- ^ a b "Table 3.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 50.
- ^ a b "Table 12.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 236.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b "17.2 Baden-Wurrtemberg, Germany; '1. Lower Stubensandstein' and '2. Middle Stubensandstein,'" in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 524.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.