The Solling Formation is a

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), but later dating places the formation from the

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of the Triassic

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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:

Temnospondyls

* '' Parotosuchus nasutus''Schoch, 2018 * '' Trematosaurus brauni''

Reptiles

* '' Anomoiodon liliensterni''Säilä, 2008 * ''

Ctenosauriscus koeneni ''Ctenosauriscus'' is an extinct genus of sail-backed poposauroid archosaur from Early Triassic deposits of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It gives its name to the family Ctenosauriscidae, which includes other sail-backed poposauroids such as ...

''Von Huene, 1902 * '' Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis''Von Huene, 1911 * '' Trachelosaurus fischeri''Broili & Fischer, 1917

Flora

* '' Pleuromeia sternbergii''

References

Bibliography

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von Huene Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions abou ...

, first=F , year=1902 , title=Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias - Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic , journal= Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie) Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena , volume=6 , pages=1–84