Jump to content

Upper Keuper

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Magic links bot (talk | contribs) at 10:02, 27 June 2017 (Replace magic links with templates per local RfC and MediaWiki RfC). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Upper Keuper
TypeGeological formation

The Upper Keuper (German: Obere Keuper, also Oberkeuper, Rhätkeuper, Rätkeuper) or Rhätsandstein (Rhätsandstein) is a lithostratigraphic subgroup of the Keuper in the Germanic Trias. It currently has only one formation, the Exter Formation. The lithostratigraphic unit is underlain by the Middle Keuper subgroup and overlain, in the North German Basin, by the Lias and, in the South German Basin by the Black Jurassic.

The Exter is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Paleofauna

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

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.