Stuttgart Formation
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| name = Stuttgart Formation
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| type = Formation
| age = Carnian
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| period = Carnian
| prilithology = Sandstone
| otherlithology = Claystone
| namedfor = Stuttgart
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| region = Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia
| country = Germany, Switzerland
| coordinates = {{coord|49.2|N|9.3|E|display=inline}}
| paleocoordinates = {{coord|21.4|N|14.9|E|display=inline}}
| unitof = Keuper
| subunits = Ansbachersandstein & Schilfsandstein members
| underlies = Weser & Steigerwald Formations
| overlies = Grabfeld & Benk Formations
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| area =
| map = {{Location map+ | Germany
| relief = 1
| width = 250
| float = center
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 49.8
| lon_deg = 9.9
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 48.8
| lon_deg = 9.2
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 49.1
| lon_deg = 9.3
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 52.0
| lon_deg = 8.5
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 48.9
| lon_deg = 9.4
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 48.5
| lon_deg = 8.9
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 49.4
| lon_deg = 10.5
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| marksize = 10
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 47.6
| lon_deg = 7.6
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{{Location map~ | Germany
| lat_deg = 49.2
| lon_deg = 9.3
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The Stuttgart Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carnian stage of the Triassic period.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Stuttgart&group_formation_member=Stuttgart Stuttgart Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content
{{see also|Ansbachersandstein#Fossil content}}
= Temnospondyls =
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- Cyclotosaurus buechneriWitzmann et al., 2016
- C. robustusSchoch & Milner, 2000
- Hyperokynodon keuperinus
- Mastodonsaurus andrianiMünster, 1839
- Metoposaurus diagnosticusSulej, 2002
- Gerrothorax sp.
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= Therapsids =
= Reptiles =
- Dyoplax arenaceus
- Thuringopelta werneburgi{{Cite journal |last1=Sues |first1=H.-D. |last2=Schoch |first2=R. R. |year=2025 |title=A doswelliid archosauriform from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) Stuttgart Formation of Thuringia (Germany) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |at=e2455949 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2025.2455949 }}
- Zanclodon subcylindrodonHuene, 1905
- Archosauria indet.
= Fish =
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- Aviculomyalina angusta
- Cyzicus laxitextus
- C. cf. dorsorectus
- C. minutus
- Homomya bilonga
- H. simplex
- Myalina rotundata
- Mytilus acutefinitus
- M. avirostrum
- M. hasta
- M. minutus
- M. peregrinus
- M. sulmensis
- Lithophaga buchhornensis
- L. lennachensis
- L. producta
- L. vermiculata
- Mactromya altera
- M. equisetitis
- Modiolus eberstadtensis
- M. formosissimus
- M. mediocarinatus
- M. minalatus
- M. parallelus
- M. parvoblongus
- M. suprarectus
- M. transiens
- M. triangulus
- Myoconcha aperina
- M. longaperina
- M. ovulum
- M. scalprosa
- M. cf. woehrmanni
- M. aff. aquatensis
- Parallelodon beyrichii
- Pinna mediokeuperina
- Pleuromya curta
- P. nitens
- Schafhaeutlia aff. liscaviensis
- Thracia keuperina
- Trigonodus cf. grandis
- T. pygmaeus
- T. singularis
- T. wuertembergicus
- Asmussia sp.
- Gervillia sp.
- ?Gryphaea sp.
- Myoconcha sp.
- Mytilus sp.
- Trigonodus sp.
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= Flora =
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- Clathrophyllum meriani
- Danaeopsis marantaceaKustatscher et al., 2012
- D. rumphi
- Desmiophyllum imhoffi
- Dioonitocarpidium pennaeforme
- Neocalamites meriani
- Pagiophyllum foetterlei
- Voltziopsis coburgensis
- Widdringtonites keuperianus
- Equisetites sp.
- Pterophyllum sp.
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See also
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- 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
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References
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= Bibliography =
- {{citation |last1=Witzmann |first1=F. |first2=S. |last2=Sachs |first3=C. J. |last3=Nyhuis |year=2016 |title=A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus |url=https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/19/83/2016/ |journal=Fossil Record |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=83–100 |doi=10.5194/fr-19-83-2016 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016FossR..19...83W |accessdate=2020-10-19}}
- {{citation |last1=Kustatscher |first1=E. |first2=K.-P. |last2=Kelber |first3=J. H. A. |last3=Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert |year=2012 |title=Danaeopsis Heer ex Schimper 1869 and its European Triassic species |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=183 |pages=32–49|doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.06.011 |bibcode=2012RPaPa.183...32K }}
- {{citation |last=Schoch |first=R. R |year=2012 |title=A dicynodont mandible from the Triassic of Germany forms the first evidence of large herbivores in the Central European Carnian |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=263 |issue=2 |pages=119–123|doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0216 }}
- {{citation |last=Sulej |first=T |year=2002 |title=Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus |url=https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app47/app47-535.pdf |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=47 |pages=535–546 |accessdate=2020-10-19}}
- {{citation |last1=Schoch |first1=R. |first2=A. R. |last2=Milner |year=2000 |title=Stereospondyli |journal=Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie |volume=3B |pages=1–203}}
- {{citation |last=Linck |first=O |year=1968 |title=Die marinen Muschelfauna des Schilfsandsteins von Eberstadt, Wuerttemberg, (Trias, Karn, mittl. Keuper 2) und deren Bedeutung |journal=Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterlaendsiche Naturkunde in Wuerttemberg |volume=123 |pages=69–133}}
- {{citation |last=Huene |first=F. von |year=1905 |title=Trias-Dinosaurier Europas - European Triassic dinosaurs |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft |volume=57 |pages=345–349}}
- {{citation |last=Fraas |first=E |year=1896 |title=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 |publisher=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 |pages=1–18}}
- {{citation |last=Münster |first=G. G |year=1839 |title=Mastodonsaurus andriani |journal=Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde |volume= |pages=102–103}}
Category:Triassic System of Europe