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Röt Formation
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<h2 id="fossil-content">Fossil content</h2> <p>The formation has provided the following fossils:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Group</th><th>Taxa</th><th>Notes</th><th>Images</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><a href="/facts/Temnospondyl/lEoAzjJe">Temnospondyls</a></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Eocyclotosaurus/EDPKdYYM">Eocyclotosaurus woschmidti</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Heptasaurus/dEmTMy7d">Heptasaurus cappelensis</a></i> (described as <i>Mastodonsaurus cappelensis</i>)</td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Capitosauria/yrxnBzKB">Capitosauria indet.</a></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="10"><a href="/facts/Reptile/04n1uKf1">Reptiles</a></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Amotosaurus/LQTQGMjG">Amotosaurus rotfeldensis</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Anomoiodon/NNGkX6Py">Anomoiodon krejcii</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i>Crenelosaurus nigrosilvanus</i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Cymatosaurus/fWHLVNCK">Cymatosaurus erikae</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></td><td rowspan="3"></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Cymatosaurus/fWHLVNCK">C. erytheus</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Cymatosaurus/fWHLVNCK">C. fridericianus</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Marcianosuchus/0PL1Hb8L">Marcianosuchus angustifrons</a></i></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Sclerosaurus/uTDNEIhA">Sclerosaurus armatus</a></i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i>Seemannia palaeotriadica</i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ctenosauriscidae/JwEXN87P">Ctenosauriscidae indet.</a></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Fish/fln4gH9V">Fish</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Selachii/rh5Cotvx">Selachii indet.</a></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Insect/IgDNvnUL">Insects</a></td><td><i>Rhoeniella granulata</i></td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="correlations">Correlations</h2> <p>Based on the fossils of early <a href="/facts/Archosaur/Urd4MHfp">archosaurs</a>, the formation is correlated with the <a href="/facts/Donguz_Formation/xqq3Mtn2">Donguz Formation</a> of Russia, the upper Heshanggou Formation of China and the Holbrook Member of the <a href="/facts/Moenkopi_Formation/GjnF84nb">Moenkopi Formation</a> of Arizona.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_fossiliferous_stratigraphic_units_in_Germany/aonC1cLs">List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany</a></li> <li>Anisian formations <ul><li><a href="/facts/Besano_Formation/Ee1xmrg7">Besano Formation</a>, fossiliferous formation of the Alps</li> <li><a href="/facts/Manda_Formation/1mmJcFHt">Manda Formation</a>, fossiliferous formation of Tanzania</li> <li><a href="/facts/Omingonde_Formation/pFUnbRG1">Omingonde Formation</a>, fossiliferous formation of Namibia</li></ul></li></ul> <h3>Bibliography</h3> <ul><li>Butler, R. J.; Brusatte, S. L.; Reich, M.; Nesbitt, S. J.; Schoch, R. R.; Hornung, J. J. (2011). <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194824">"The sail-backed reptile <i>Ctenosauriscus</i> from the latest Early Triassic of Germany and the timing and biogeography of the early archosaur radiation"</a>. <i><a href="/facts/PLOS_ONE/fTQQQbTr">PLOS ONE</a></i>. 6 (10): 1–28. <a href="/facts/Bibcode_(identifier)/9HtdQSGB">Bibcode</a>:<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011PLoSO...625693B">2011PLoSO...625693B</a>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025693">10.1371/journal.pone.0025693</a>. <a href="/facts/PMC_(identifier)/dX1zMt71">PMC</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194824">3194824</a>. <a href="/facts/PMID_(identifier)/JlHAvMHt">PMID</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22022431">22022431</a>.</li> <li>Sues, H.-D.; Reisz, R. R. (2008). "Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of <i>Sclerosaurus armatus</i> (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe". <i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Vertebrate_Paleontology/PcHQyxzD">Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology</a></i>. 28 (4): 1031–1042. <a href="/facts/Bibcode_(identifier)/9HtdQSGB">Bibcode</a>:<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008JVPal..28.1031S">2008JVPal..28.1031S</a>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1671%2F0272-4634-28.4.1031">10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1031</a>. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53967912">53967912</a>.</li> <li>Fraser, N. C.; Rieppel, O. (2006). "A new protorosaur (Diapsida) from the Upper Buntsandstein of the Black Forest, Germany". <i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Vertebrate_Paleontology/PcHQyxzD">Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology</a></i>. 26 (4): 866–871. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1671%2F0272-4634%282006%2926%5B866%3AANPDFT%5D2.0.CO%3B2">10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[866:ANPDFT]2.0.CO;2</a>. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:86244612">86244612</a>.</li> <li>Rieppel, O (1999). "Variation of cranial characters in <i>Cymatosaurus "gracilis"</i> Schrammen 1899 (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), and its implications for systematics". <i><a href="/facts/Pal%25C3%25A4ontologische_Zeitschrift/0gqhJsEs">Paläontologische Zeitschrift</a></i>. 73 (3–4): 369–375. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02988047">10.1007/BF02988047</a>. <a href="/facts/S2CID_(identifier)/ldJsHa2Y">S2CID</a> <a href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84238070">84238070</a>.</li> <li>Schoch, R. R.; Werneburg, R. (1999). "The Triassic labyrinthodonts from Germany". <i><a href="/facts/Zentralblatt_f%25C3%25BCr_Geologie_und_Pal%25C3%25A4ontologie%2c_Teil_I/0Mbzq5Jv">Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I</a></i>. 7–8: 629–650.</li> <li>Ebel, K.; Falkenstein, F.; Haderer, F.-O.; Wild, R. (1998). "<i>Ctenosauriscus koeneni</i> (v. 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"Ein Pseudosuchier aus dem Buntsandstein des Schwarzwalds [A pseudosuchian from the Buntsandstein of the Black Forest]". <i>Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg</i>. 113: 111–112.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Röt Formation at Fossilworks.org <a href="https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=R%F6t&group_formation_member=R%F6t" target="_blank">https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=R%F6t&group_formation_member=R%F6t</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Butler et al., 2011, p.2 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Butler et al., 2011, p.25 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Röt Formation at Fossilworks.org <a href="https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=R%F6t&group_formation_member=R%F6t" target="_blank">https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=R%F6t&group_formation_member=R%F6t</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Schoch & Werneburg, 1999 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Fraser & Rieppel, 2006 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Schoch & Werneburg, 1999 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Butler et al., 2011 <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Ortlam, 1967 <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Ortlam, 1967 <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Ortlam, 1967 <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Rieppel, 1997 <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Rieppel, 1997 <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Rieppel, 1999 <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Sues & Reisz, 2008 <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Von Huene, 1958 <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Butler et al., 2011 <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Butler et al., 2011 <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Ansorge, 1994 <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Butler et al., 2011, p.25 <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>