Solling Formation

Solling Formation
Stratigraphic range: Olenekian-Anisian (Spathian-Aegean) ~251.3–242  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Formation
Unit of	Buntsandstein Group
Sub-units	Solling-Bausandstein & Chirotherium Sandstone Members
Lithology
Primary	Claystone
Other	Siltstone
Location
Coordinates	50°18′N11°00′E / 50.3°N 11.0°E / 50.3; 11.0
Approximate paleocoordinates	16°12′N19°42′E / 16.2°N 19.7°E / 16.2; 19.7
Region	Bavaria, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thuringia
Country	Germany
Solling Formation (Germany)

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.

Description

The formation is subdivided into three members, the lower Solling-Bausandstein Member, the Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds and the upper Chirotherium Sandstone Member.

Fossil content

The following fossils have been reported from the formation: ^[1]

Temnospondyls

• Parotosuchus nasutus ^[2]
• Trematosaurus brauni ^[2]

Reptiles

• Anomoiodon liliensterni ^[3]
• Ctenosauriscus koeneni ^[4]
• Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis ^[5]
• Trachelosaurus fischeri ^[6]

Flora

• Pleuromeia sternbergii ^[6]

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany

References

1. Solling Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. Schoch, 2018
3. Säilä, 2008
4. Von Huene, 1902
5. Von Huene, 1911
6. Broili & Fischer, 1917

Bibliography

• 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

• H. H. Ecke. 1986. Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken. Dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1-117