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The formation has provided the following fossils:⁴

Correlations

Based on the fossils of early archosaurs, the formation is correlated with the Donguz Formation of Russia, the upper Heshanggou Formation of China and the Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.²⁰

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany
• Anisian formations
  • Besano Formation, fossiliferous formation of the Alps
  • Manda Formation, fossiliferous formation of Tanzania
  • Omingonde Formation, fossiliferous formation of Namibia

Bibliography

• Butler, R. J.; Brusatte, S. L.; Reich, M.; Nesbitt, S. J.; Schoch, R. R.; Hornung, J. J. (2011). "The sail-backed reptile Ctenosauriscus from the latest Early Triassic of Germany and the timing and biogeography of the early archosaur radiation". PLOS ONE. 6 (10): 1–28. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...625693B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025693. PMC 3194824. PMID 22022431.
• Sues, H.-D.; Reisz, R. R. (2008). "Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of Sclerosaurus armatus (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Buntsandstein (Triassic) of Europe". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (4): 1031–1042. Bibcode:2008JVPal..28.1031S. doi:10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1031. S2CID 53967912.
• Fraser, N. C.; Rieppel, O. (2006). "A new protorosaur (Diapsida) from the Upper Buntsandstein of the Black Forest, Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (4): 866–871. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[866:ANPDFT]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86244612.
• Rieppel, O (1999). "Variation of cranial characters in Cymatosaurus "gracilis" Schrammen 1899 (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), and its implications for systematics". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 73 (3–4): 369–375. doi:10.1007/BF02988047. S2CID 84238070.
• Schoch, R. R.; Werneburg, R. (1999). "The Triassic labyrinthodonts from Germany". Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I. 7–8: 629–650.
• Ebel, K.; Falkenstein, F.; Haderer, F.-O.; Wild, R. (1998). "Ctenosauriscus koeneni (v. Huene) und der Rauisuchier von Waldshut - Biomechanische Deutung der Wirbelsäule und Beziehungen zu Chirotherium sickleri Kaup". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B. 261: 1–18.
• Rieppel, O (1997). "Revision of the sauropterygian reptile genus Cymatosaurus v. Fritsch, 1894, and the relationships of Germanosaurus Nopcsa, 1928, from the Middle Triassic of Europe". Fieldiana: Geology. New Series. 36: 1–36.
• Ansorge, J (1994). "Rhoeniella granulata gen. et sp. nov. (Insecta: Hemiptera) aus dem Oberen Buntsandstein der Rhön (Hessen)". Senckenbergiana Lethaea. 74: 325–327.
• Ortlam, D (1967). "Fossile Böden als Leithorizonte für die Gliederung des Höheren Buntsandsteins im nördlichen Schwarzwald und südlichen Odenwald". Geologisches Jahrbuch. 84: 485–590.
• Von Huene, F (1958). "Ein Pseudosuchier aus dem Buntsandstein des Schwarzwalds [A pseudosuchian from the Buntsandstein of the Black Forest]". Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg. 113: 111–112.

References

1. Röt Formation at Fossilworks.org https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=R%F6t&group_formation_member=R%F6t ↩

2. Butler et al., 2011, p.2 ↩

3. Butler et al., 2011, p.25 ↩

4. Röt Formation at Fossilworks.org https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=R%F6t&group_formation_member=R%F6t ↩

5. Schoch & Werneburg, 1999 ↩

6. Fraser & Rieppel, 2006 ↩

7. Schoch & Werneburg, 1999 ↩

8. Butler et al., 2011 ↩

9. Ortlam, 1967 ↩

10. Ortlam, 1967 ↩

11. Ortlam, 1967 ↩

12. Rieppel, 1997 ↩

13. Rieppel, 1997 ↩

14. Rieppel, 1999 ↩

15. Sues & Reisz, 2008 ↩

16. Von Huene, 1958 ↩

17. Butler et al., 2011 ↩

18. Butler et al., 2011 ↩

19. Ansorge, 1994 ↩

20. Butler et al., 2011, p.25 ↩