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Klettgau Formation
The Klettgau Formation is a geological formation in Switzerland. It is Late Triassic in age, covering most of the mid to late Norian, the Carnian, and into the Rhaetian, spanning a period of 26-30 million years.Klettgau Formation at Fossilworks.org Description The primary depositional environment was that of a Dry lake, playa with marine and fluvial Intercalation (geology), intercalations. The lithology is quite variable consisting primarily of fine grained rocks typically claystones and Calcrete, dolocretes, often with sandstone or carbonatic fluvial channel fills.Jordan et al., 2016Fossil content Dinosaur fossils are known from the formation, including those of ''Plateosaurus,' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnian
The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic Series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic Epoch). It lasted from 237 to 227 million years ago (Ma). The Carnian is preceded by the Ladinian and is followed by the Norian. Its boundaries are not characterized by major extinctions or biotic turnovers, but a climatic event (known as the Carnian pluvial episode characterized by substantial rainfall) occurred during the Carnian and seems to be associated with important extinctions or biotic radiations. Stratigraphic definitions The Carnian was named in 1869 by Mojsisovics. It is unclear if it was named after the Carnic Alps or after the Austrian region of Carinthia (''Kärnten'' in German) or after the Carnia historical region in northwestern Italy. The name, however, was first used referring to a part of the Hallstatt Limestone cropping out in Austria. The base of the Carnian Stage is defined as the place in the stratigraphic record where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dry Lake
A dry lake bed, also known as a playa, is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceeds recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkaline compounds, it is known as an alkali flat. If covered with salt, it is known as a '' salt flat.'' Terminology If its basin is primarily salt, then a dry lake bed is called a '' salt pan'', ''pan'', or ''salt flat'' (the latter being a remnant of a salt lake). ''Hardpan'' is the dry terminus of an internally drained basin in a dry climate, a designation typically used in the Great Basin of the western United States. Another term for dry lake bed is ''playa''. The Spanish word ''playa'' () literally means "beach". Dry lakes are known by this name in some parts of Mexico and the western United States. This term is used e.g. on the Llano Estacado and other parts of the Southern High Plains and is commonly used to address paleolake sediments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deltadectes
''Deltadectes'' is an extinct genus of early rhynchocephalian from the Late Triassic of Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel .... It contains a single species, ''Deltadectes elvetica''. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q109826878 Sphenodontia Prehistoric reptile genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morganucodon
''Morganucodon'' (" Glamorgan tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived from the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic. It first appeared about 205 million years ago. Unlike many other early mammaliaforms, ''Morganucodon'' is well represented by abundant and well preserved (though in the vast majority of cases disarticulated) material. Most of this comes from Glamorgan in Wales (''Morganucodon watsoni''), but fossils have also been found in Yunnan Province in China (''Morganucodon oehleri'') and various parts of Europe and North America. Some closely related animals (''Megazostrodon'') are known from exquisite fossils from South Africa. The name comes from a Latinization of ''Morganuc'', the name for South Glamorgan in the Domesday Book, the county of Wales where it was discovered by Walter Georg Kühne,Walter G. Kühne, "On a Triconodont tooth of a new pattern from a Fissure-filling in South Glamorgan", ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'', volume 119 (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricuspes
''Tricuspes'' is an extinct genus of cynodonts that lived in what would be Europe during the Triassic from 203.6 to 199.6 mya, existing for approximately . Three species are known: ''Tricuspes tubingensis'' (Huene, 1933), ''Tricuspes sigogneauae'' (Hahn ''et al.'', 1994) and ''Tricuspes tapeinodon'' (Godefroit and Battail, 1997), which are all from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian) period in continental Europe. Places of discovery Teeth of ''Tricuspes tubingensis'' have been found at the following locations: * Saint-Nicolas-de-Port * Medernach * Baden-Württemberg * Kanton Schaffhausen Dentition This genus is represented only by isolated teeth found in continental Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel .... Its postcanine molariform teeth are tricuspate or tetra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia (animal)
''Thomasia'' is a mammaliaform from the family Haramiyidae. from the Late Triassic of Europe. Only its teeth have been found.Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 249–260. Distribution Fossils of the genus have been found in:''Thomasia'' at Fossilworks.org ;Triassic * Sables and Grès de Mortinsart Formations, Gaume, Belgium * ''Microlestes'' Quarry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallautherium
''Hallautherium'' is an extinct genus of morganucodont mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic of Europe. The type species ''H. schalchi'' is known from the Klettgau Formation of Switzerland. In addition, a molar (tooth), molariform tooth referable to the genus has been found in Poland. References Morganucodonts Prehistoric cynodont genera Norian genera Rhaetian genera Late Triassic synapsids of Europe Triassic Switzerland Fossils of Poland Fossils of Switzerland Taxa named by William A. Clemens Jr. Fossil taxa described in 1980 {{paleo-therapsid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schleitheimia
''Schleitheimia'' (named after the type locality of Schleitheim), is an extinct genus of sauropodiform sauropodomorph dinosaur, from the Gruhalde Member of Klettgau Formation of Switzerland. The type species, ''Schleitheimia schutzi'' was formally described in 2020. Discovery and naming The type material was collected between 1952 and 1954 by Emil Schutz. They were donated to the University of Zürich in 1955. In 1986, most of the material was described by Peter Galton, who referred them all to the species ''Plateosaurus engelhardti''. In 2020, Oliver Rauhut, Femke Holwerda and Heinz Furrer redescribed most of Schutz's remains, as well as some remains in the collections of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and new remains from a excavation in 2016 led by Holwerda. They found that the earlier found remains represented a new genus and species, which they named ''Schleitheimia schultzi'', honoring the type locality and the discoverer of the type remains. The 2016 finds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notatesseraeraptor
''Notatesseraeraptor'' ("feature mosaic tile thief"; from the Latin "nota", feature; "tesserae", tiles used to make a mosaic, in reference to the mixture of features normally found on dilophosaurids and coelophysoids; and "raptor", thief) is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic of what is now Switzerland. It was found in the Gruhalde Member of the Klettgau Formation. It was an early member of Neotheropoda with affinities to ''Dilophosaurus'' and Averostra. The new genus and species ''Notatesseraeraptor frickensis'' was named by Marion Zahner and colleagues in 2019. Since 1961, at the clay pit of Gruhalde, exploited by Tonwerke Keller, numerous fossils of ''Plateosaurus'' have been found. At a somewhat higher layer, in the spring of 2006, amateur paleontologist Michael Fisher discovered the postcranial skeleton of a small theropod. In 2009, the skull was secured. The fossils were unearthed and prepared by Ben Pabst and team. Initially the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plateosaurus
''Plateosaurus'' (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. ''Plateosaurus'' is a basal (early) sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". The type species is ''Plateosaurus trossingensis''; before 2019, that honor was given to ''Plateosaurus engelhardti'', but it was ruled as undiagnostic (i.e. indistinguishable from other dinosaurs) by the ICZN. Currently, there are three valid species; in addition to ''P. trossingensis'', ''P. longiceps'' and ''P. gracilis'' are also known. However, others have been assigned in the past, and there is no broad consensus on the species taxonomy of plateosaurid dinosaurs. Similarly, there are a plethora of synonyms (invalid duplicate names) at the genus level. Discovered in 1834 by Johann Friedrich Engelhardt and described three years later by Herma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
