The Solling Formation is a geologic formation in Germany.[1] Formerly considered earliest Triassic (Induan), but later dating places the formation from the Olenekian to Anisian of the Triassic period.
| Solling Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Olenekian-Anisian (Spathian-Aegean) ~ | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Buntsandstein Group |
| Sub-units | Solling-Bausandstein & Chirotherium Sandstone Members |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Claystone |
| Other | Siltstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 50°18′N 11°00′E / 50.3°N 11.0°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 16°12′N 19°42′E / 16.2°N 19.7°E |
| Region | Bavaria, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
  Solling Formation (Germany) | |
Description
editThe formation is subdivided into three members, the lower Solling-Bausandstein Member, the Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds and the upper Chirotherium Sandstone Member.
Fossil content
editThe following fossils have been reported from the formation:[1]
Temnospondyls
editReptiles
edit- Anomoiodon liliensterni[3]
- Ctenosauriscus koeneni[4]
- Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis[5]
- Trachelosaurus fischeri[6]
Flora
editSee also
editReferences
editBibliography
edit- Schoch, R. R (2018), "The temnospondyl Parotosuchus nasutus (v. Meyer, 1858) from the Early Triassic Middle Buntsandstein of Germany", Palaeodiversity, 11: 107–126, doi:10.18476/pale.11.a6
- Säilä, L. K (2008), "The Osteology and Affinities of Anomoiodon liliensterni, a Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Germany", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28 (4): 1199–1205, Bibcode:2008JVPal..28.1199S, doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1199
- Broili, F.; Fischer, E. (1917), "Trachelosaurus fischeri nov. gen. nov. sp. Ein neuer Saurier aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg", Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, 37: 359–414
- von Huene, F (1911), "Ueber die Procolophoniden, mit einer neuen Form aus dem Buntsandstein", Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1911: 78–83
- von Huene, F (1902), "Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias - Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic", Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie) Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena, 6: 1–84
Further reading
edit- H. H. Ecke. 1986. Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken. Dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1-117