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Solling Formation
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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>The formation is subdivided into three members, the lower Solling-Bausandstein Member, the Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds and the upper Chirotherium Sandstone Member. </p> <h2 id="fossil-content">Fossil content</h2> <p>The following fossils have been reported from the formation:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h3>Temnospondyls</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Parotosuchus/5R81k5wP">Parotosuchus nasutus</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Trematosaurus/zXz5JgC2">Trematosaurus brauni</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Reptiles</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Anomoiodon/NNGkX6Py">Anomoiodon liliensterni</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Ctenosauriscus/Y2Qy9nvr">Ctenosauriscus koeneni</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Koiloskiosaurus/Szh420b7">Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Trachelosaurus/IfB4h2oA">Trachelosaurus fischeri</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Flora</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Pleuromeia/5PJnSPJ2">Pleuromeia sternbergii</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li></ul> <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></ul> <h3>Bibliography</h3> <ul><li>Schoch, R. R (2018), "The temnospondyl <i>Parotosuchus nasutus</i> (v. Meyer, 1858) from the Early Triassic Middle Buntsandstein of Germany", <i>Palaeodiversity</i>, 11: 107–126, <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.18476%2Fpale.11.a6">10.18476/pale.11.a6</a></li> <li>Säilä, L. K (2008), "The Osteology and Affinities of <i>Anomoiodon liliensterni</i>, a Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Germany", <i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Vertebrate_Paleontology/PcHQyxzD">Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology</a></i>, 28 (4): 1199–1205, <a href="/facts/Bibcode_(identifier)/9HtdQSGB">Bibcode</a>:<a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008JVPal..28.1199S">2008JVPal..28.1199S</a>, <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1671%2F0272-4634-28.4.1199">10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1199</a></li> <li>Broili, F.; Fischer, E. (1917), "<i>Trachelosaurus fischeri</i> nov. gen. nov. sp. Ein neuer Saurier aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg", <i>Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin</i>, 37: 359–414</li> <li><a href="/facts/Friedrich_von_Huene/ys0bbYeq">von Huene</a>, F (1911), "Ueber die Procolophoniden, mit einer neuen Form aus dem Buntsandstein", <i>Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie</i>, 1911: 78–83</li> <li><a href="/facts/Friedrich_von_Huene/ys0bbYeq">von Huene</a>, F (1902), "Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias - Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic", <i>Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie) Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena</i>, 6: 1–84</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>H. H. Ecke. 1986. Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken. Dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1-117</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Solling Formation at Fossilworks.org <a href="https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=Solling&group_formation_member=Solling" target="_blank">https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=Solling&group_formation_member=Solling</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Solling Formation at Fossilworks.org <a href="https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=Solling&group_formation_member=Solling" target="_blank">https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=Solling&group_formation_member=Solling</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Schoch, 2018 <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Schoch, 2018 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Säilä, 2008 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Von Huene, 1902 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Von Huene, 1911 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Broili & Fischer, 1917 <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Broili & Fischer, 1917 <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>