Feuerletten Formation
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The Feuerletten Formation is a geological formation in Germany. It dates back to the late Norian
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Norian
The Norian is a division of the Triassic geological period. It has the rank of an age or stage . The Norian lasted from 216.5 ± 2.0 to 203.6 ± 1.5 million years ago. It was preceded by the Carnian and succeeded by the Rhaetian.-Stratigraphic definitions:The Norian was named after the Noric Alps in...
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Vertebrate fauna
| Vertebrate Vertebrate Vertebrates are animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata . Vertebrates are the largest group of chordates, with currently about 58,000 species described. Vertebrates include the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks and rays, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds... s reported from the Feuerletten Formation |
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Plateosaurus Plateosaurus Plateosaurus is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod"... |
Plateosaurus bavaricus |
Later found to be indeterminate prosauropod remains. |
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Plateosaurus engelhardti |
"Vertebrae, sacrum, [possible] partial skeleton, adult, and hundreds of isolated bones, juvenile to adult." |
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