Stuttgart Formation
Stuttgart Formation Stratigraphic range: Carnian ~ | |
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Type | Formation |
Unit of | Keuper |
Sub-units | Ansbachersandstein & Schilfsandstein members |
Underlies | & |
Overlies | & |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Other | Claystone |
Location | |
Coordinates | 49°12′N 9°18′E / 49.2°N 9.3°E |
Approximate paleocoordinates | 21°24′N 14°54′E / 21.4°N 14.9°E |
Region | Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany Switzerland |
Type section | |
Named for | Stuttgart |
Stuttgart Formation (Germany) |
The Stuttgart Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carnian stage of the Triassic period.[1]
Fossil content[]
Temnospondyls[]
Therapsids[]
Reptiles[]
- Zanclodon arenaceus[7]
- Z. subcylindrodon[8]
- Archosauria indet.[6]
Fish[]
- Invertebrates[9]
- Cyzicus laxitextus
- C. cf. dorsorectus
- C. minutus
- Mytilus acutefinitus
- M. avirostrum
- M. hasta
- M. minutus
- M. peregrinus
- M. sulmensis
- Lithophaga buchhornensis
- L. lennachensis
- L. producta
- L. vermiculata
- Modiolus eberstadtensis
- M. formosissimus
- M. mediocarinatus
- M. minalatus
- M. parallelus
- M. parvoblongus
- M. suprarectus
- M. transiens
- M. triangulus
- Pinna mediokeuperina
- Gervillia sp.
- ?Gryphaea sp.
- Mytilus sp.
Flora[]
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- Neocalamites meriani[9]
- Pagiophyllum foetterlei[9]
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- Equisetites sp.[9]
- Pterophyllum sp.[9]
See also[]
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Switzerland
- Benkersandstein, contemporaneous ichnofossiliferous formation of Bavaria
- Chañares Formation, fossiliferous formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin, Argentina
- Candelária Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of the Paraná Basin, Brazil
- Molteno Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Lesotho and South Africa
- Pebbly Arkose Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- Denmark Hill Insect Bed, contemporaneous fossiliferous unit of Queensland, Australia
- Madygen Formation, contemporaneous Lagerstätte of Kyrgyzstan
References[]
Bibliography[]
- A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus. Fossil Record 19. 83-100. Accessed 2020-10-19. ; , and . 2016.
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 183. 32–49. ; , and . 2012. Danaeopsis Heer ex Schimper 1869 and its European Triassic species.
- Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 263. 119–123. . 2012. A dicynodont mandible from the Triassic of Germany forms the first evidence of large herbivores in the Central European Carnian.
- Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47. 535–546. Accessed 2020-10-19. . 2002.
- , and . 2000. Stereospondyli. 3B. 1–203.
- . 1968. Die marinen Muschelfauna des Schilfsandsteins von Eberstadt, Wuerttemberg, (Trias, Karn, mittl. Keuper 2) und deren Bedeutung. 123. 69–133.
- . 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas - European Triassic dinosaurs. 57. 345–349.
- . 1896. Die Schwäbischen Trias-Saurier nach dem Material der Kgl. Naturalien-Sammlung in Stuttgart zusammengestellt - Swabian Triassic dinosaurs based on the material in the Royal Natural History Collection compiled in Stuttgart, 1-18. Festgabe des Königlichen Naturalien-Cabinets In Stuttgart zur 42 Versammlung der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, August 1896. E. Schweizerbartische Verlag-handlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart.
- . 1839. Mastodonsaurus andriani. .. 102-103.
Categories:
- Geologic formations of Germany
- Geologic formations of Switzerland
- Triassic System of Europe
- Triassic Germany
- Triassic Switzerland
- Carnian Stage
- Sandstone formations
- Shale formations
- Fluvial deposits
- Lacustrine deposits
- Lagoonal deposits
- Paleontology in Germany
- Geography of Baden-Württemberg
- Geography of Bavaria
- Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia