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

Dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

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Taxa Presence Notes Images

Infraorder:
  • Ceratosauria
    Ceratosauria
    Ceratosaurs are members of a group of theropod dinosaurs defined as all theropods sharing a more recent common ancestry with Ceratosaurus than with birds. There is presently no universally agreed upon listing of species or diagnostic characters of Ceratosauria, though they were less derived...

  1. Indeterminate remains.
  • Includes cf. Liliensternus
    Liliensternus
    Liliensternus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, about 205 Ma.Liliensternus was originally named in 1934 by Friedrich von Huene as a second species of Halticosaurus, H. liliensterni, the specific name honouring the German amateur paleontologist, Dr...

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  • Genus:
    • 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"...

    1. P. engelhardti
  • Includes P. longiceps, P. fraasianus, P. integer, P. trossingensis.

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


  • Pterospondylus trielbae - "Vertebra."
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