Trossingen Formation

Trossingen Formation
Stratigraphic range: Upper Triassic
Type Geological formation

The Trossingen Formation is a geological formation in Germany. It dates back to the late Norian.[1]

Vertebrate fauna

Dinosaurs of the Trossingen Formation
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Infraorder:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Includes cf. Liliensternus sp.[1]

Genus:

  1. P. engelhardti[1]
  1. Includes P. longiceps, P. fraasianus, P. integer, P. trossingensis.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Infraorder:

  1. Indeterminate remains.[1]
  1. Includes Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis, P. plieningeri, P. quenstedti and, Gresslyosaurus robustus. "Pachysaurus" species P. ajax, P. giganteus, P. magnus, P. reiningeri, and P. wetzelianus[1] Several of these belong to Plateosaurus engelhardti

Pterospondylus trielbae - "Vertebra."[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j 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.
  2. ^ Huene, F. von (1928). "Lebensbild des Saurischier-Vorkommens im obersten Keuper von Trossingen in Württemberg" ["Pictures of the life of the Saurischia present in the upper-most Keuper of Trossingen in Württemberg"]. Palaeobiologica 1:103–116 [German]
  3. ^ Huene, F. von (1932). "Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte" ["The fossil order of reptiles Saurischia, their development and history"]. Monographien zur Geologie und Paläontologie 4:1–361 [German]
  4. ^ Galton, P.M. (1984). "Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel (Middle Keuper, Upper Triassic) of Germany. I. Two complete skulls from Trossingen/Württ. With comments on the diet". Geologica et Palaeontologica 18:139–171
  5. ^ Moser, M. (2003). "Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) aus dem Feuerletten (Mittelkeuper; Obertrias) von Bayern" ["Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Feuerletten (Mittelkeuper; Obertrias) of Bavaria"]. Zitteliana Reihe B, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie 24:1–186 [German with extended English summary]
  6. ^ Yates, A.M. (2003). "Species taxonomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Löwenstein Formation (Norian, Late Triassic) of Germany". Palaeontology 46(2):317–337.
  7. ^ "Table 3.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 50.