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Coburgosuchus goeckeli Heller 1954
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
- 2. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany & Institut für Biologie, Universität Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 30, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Description
Coburgosuchus goeckeli Heller, 1954
Holotype.
NMC 10282, posterior region of cranium and associated teeth (Heller 1954).
Type locality.
Untersiemau near Coburg, Bavaria.
Type horizon.
Lower portion of Upper Burgsandstein (equivalent to upper part of Löwenstein Formation), Middle Keuper Subgroup. Age: Late Triassic (Norian: Alaunian).
Diagnosis.
Currently not possible because NMC 10282 requires re-examination.
Comments.
In its cranial features Coburgosuchus goeckeli closely resembles Nicrosaurus kapffi. Thus, many authors have synonymized these two taxa, but, more recently, Spielmann and Lucas (2012) and Jones and Butler (2018) have retained their separation.
References.
Heller (1954), Spielmann and Lucas (2012), Jones and Butler (2018).
Notes
Published as part of Sues, Hans-Dieter & Schoch, Rainer R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany, pp. 411-483 in Fossil Record 28 (2) on pages 411-483, DOI: 10.3897/fr.28.164405
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Heller
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Prolacertiformes
- Family
- Phytosauridae
- Genus
- Coburgosuchus
- Species
- goeckeli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coburgosuchus goeckeli Heller, 1954 sec. Sues & Schoch, 2025
References
- Heller F (1954) Ein Parasuchier-Schadelrest aus dem Oberen Burgsandstein von Coburg. Geologische Blatter fur Nordost-Bayern 4: 1-13.
- Heller F (1954) Ein Parasuchier-Schädelrest aus dem Oberen Burgsandstein von Coburg. Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern 4: 1–13.
- Spielmann J, Lucas SG (2012) Tetrapod fauna of the Upper Triassic Redonda Formation, east-central New Mexico: the characteristic assemblage of the Apachean Land-Vertebrate Faunachron. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 55: 1–119.
- Jones AS, Butler RJ (2018) A new phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) with the application of continuous and geometric morphometric character coding. PeerJ 6: e 5901. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5901