The Torleite Formation is a geologic formation and Lagerstätte in Germany.[1] It preserves fossils dating to the Kimmeridgian stage of the Jurassic period.[2] Animals recovered from the formation include the small theropod dinosaur Sciurumimus, the ctenochasmatid pterosaur Balaenognathus, and the extinct bony fish Anaethalion.
| Torleite Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Kimmeridgian ~ | |
 Outcrop of the Torelite Formation near Wattendorf which is the type locality of Balaenognathus maeuseri | |
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Upper Weißjura Group |
| Underlies | Rögling & Painten Formations |
| Overlies | Treuchtlingen Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Mudstone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 50°00′N 11°06′E / 50.0°N 11.1°E |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 41°12′N 19°12′E / 41.2°N 19.2°E |
| Region | Bavaria |
| Country |  Germany |
  Torleite Formation (Germany) | |
Fossil content
editThe following fossils have been reported from the formation:[2]
Crocodylomorphs
edit- Alligatorium franconicum (=Neosuchia indet.)[3]
- Cricosaurus bambergensis[4]
- Dakosaurus maximus[3]
- Cricosaurus sp.[3]
Dinosaurs
editPterosaurs
editTurtles
editRhynchocephalians
editFish
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Chellouche et al., in Reitner et al., 2013, p.29
- ^ a b Torleite Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ a b c d e Rauhut et al., 2012
- ^ Sachs et al., 2019
- ^ Martill, D. M.; Frey, E.; Tischlinger, H.; Mäuser, M.; Rivera-Sylva, H. E.; Vidovic, S. U. (2023). "A new pterodactyloid pterosaur with a unique filter-feeding apparatus from the Late Jurassic of Germany". PalZ. 97 (2): 383–424. Bibcode:2023PalZ...97..383M. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00644-4.
- ^ Villa, Andrea; Montie, Roel; Röper, Martin; Rothgaenger, Monika; Rauhut, Oliver W. M. (2021-05-03). "Sphenofontis velserae gen. et sp. nov., a new rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Brunn (Solnhofen Archipelago, southern Germany)". PeerJ. 9: e11363. doi:10.7717/peerj.11363. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8101455. PMID 33987027.
Bibliography
edit- Sachs, S.; Young, M. T.; Abel, P.; Mallison, H. (2019), "A new species of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Cricosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany", Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 64: 343–356, doi:10.4202/app.00541.2018, hdl:20.500.11820/3406c493-ccd5-47bf-9103-2a5acd3fc9b1, retrieved 2020-09-15
- Reitner, Joachim; Qun, Yang; Yongdong, Wang; Reich, Mike (2013), Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History (PDF), Universitätsverlag Göttingen, pp. 1–218, ISBN 978-3-86395-135-1, retrieved 2020-09-15
- Rauhut, O. W. M.; Foth, C.; Tischlinger, H.; Norell, M. A. (2012), "Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (29): 11746–11751, Bibcode:2012PNAS..10911746R, doi:10.1073/pnas.1203238109, PMC 3406838, PMID 22753486