• Source: 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.




Description


The primary depositional environment was that of a playa with marine and fluvial intercalations. The lithology is quite variable consisting primarily of fine grained rocks typically claystones and dolocretes, often with sandstone or carbonatic fluvial channel fills.




Fossil content


Dinosaur fossils are known from the formation, including those of Plateosaurus, Notatesseraeraptor frickensis and Schleitheimia
The following other fossils were found in the formation:

Prozostrodontia
Hallautherium schalchi
Helvetiodon schutzi
?Thomasia sp.
cf. Thomasia sp.
Thomasia antiqua
T. moorei
Tricuspes cf. tuebingensis
?Haramiyidae indet.
Morganucodon peyeri
Morganucodon sp.
Reptiles
Deltadectes elvetica
Termatosaurus albertii
Proganochelys quenstedtii
Paleollanosaurus sp.
?Variodens sp.
cf. Diphydontosaurus sp.
cf. Eudimorphodon sp.
Archosauriformes indet.
Nothosauridae indet.
Pterosauria indet.
Sphenodontia indet.
Theropoda indet.
Amphibians
Labyrinthodontia indet.
Fish

Invertebrates




References






= Bibliography

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Carrano, M. T (2020), Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria, unpublished
Rauhut, Oliver W. M.; Holwerda, Femke M.; Furrer, Heinz (2020), "A derived sauropodiform dinosaur and other sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic of Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland", Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 113 (1): 8, doi:10.1186/s00015-020-00360-8, ISSN 1661-8726
Zahner, M.; Brinkmann, W. (2019), "A Triassic averostran-line theropod from Switzerland and the early evolution of dinosaurs", Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3 (8): 1146–1152, Bibcode:2019NatEE...3.1146Z, doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0941-z, ISSN 2397-334X, PMC 6669044, PMID 31285577
Whiteside, D. I.; Duffin, C. J.; Furrer, H. (2017), "The Late Triassic lepidosaur fauna from Hallau, North-Eastern Switzerland, and a new 'basal' rhynchocephalian Deltadectes elvetica gen. et sp. nov.", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 285: 53–74, doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0669
Jordan, Peter; Pietsch, Johannes S.; Bläsi, Hansruedi; Furrer, Heinz; Kündig, Nicole; Looser, Nathan; Wetzel, Andreas; Deplazes, Gaudenz (2016), "The middle to late Triassic Bänkerjoch and Klettgau formations of northern Switzerland", Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 109 (2): 257–284, doi:10.1007/s00015-016-0218-3, ISSN 1661-8726
Butler, R. J.; Porro, L. B.; Heckert, A. B. (2006), "A supposed heterodontosaurid tooth from the Rhaetian of Switzerland and a reassessment of the European Late Triassic record of Ornithischia (Dinosauria)", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte, 2006 (10): 613–633, doi:10.1127/njgpm/2006/2006/613
Tatarinov, L. P (1985), "New data on a collection of tetrapod teeth from the Rhaetian of Hallau (Switzerland)", Paleontological Journal, 1: 138–140
Clemens, W. A (1980), "Rhaeto-Liassic mammals from Switzerland and West Germany", Zitteliana, 5: 51–92
Peyer, B (1956), "Über Zähne von Haramiyiden, von Triconodonten und von wahrscheinlich synapsiden Reptilien aus dem Rhät von Hallau, Kt. Schaffhausen, Schweiz - On the teeth of haramiyids, triconodonts, and probable synapsid reptiles from the Rhaetic of Hallau, Kanton Schaffhausen, Switzerland", Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 72: 1–72
Schalch, F.; Peyer, B. (1919), "Über ein neues Rhätvorkommen im Keuper des Donau-Rheinzuges - On a new occurrence of the Rhaetian in the Keuper of the Danube-Rhine valleys", Mitteilungen der Badischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, 8: 263–315

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Klettgau Formation
• Schleitheimia
• List of European dinosaurs
• List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
• Deltadectes
• Hallautherium
• Notatesseraeraptor
• Thomasia (animal)
• Proganochelys
• List of sauropodomorph type specimens