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The Knollenmergel is a geological formation in Germany and Switzerland. It dates back to the late Norian

Norian

The Norian is a division of the Triassic geological period. It has the rank of an age or stage . The Norian lasted from 216.5 ± 2.0 to 203.6 ± 1.5 million years ago. It was preceded by the Carnian and succeeded by the Rhaetian.-Stratigraphic definitions:The Norian was named after the Noric Alps in...

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s reported from the Knollenmergel Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Material	Notes	Images
Gresslyosaurus	G. ingens			"Incomplete sacrum, caudals, metacarpal, partial hindlimb."
Gresslyosaurus	G. torgeri	Kanton Baselland		"Postcranial skeleton."	Indeterminate prosauropod remains. A referred skull was once known but has since been lost.
Halticosaurus Halticosaurus Halticosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period . It was a coelophysoid found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of what is present-day Germany...	H. liliensterni	Thuringen
	H. longotarsus	Sachsen-Anhalt			Indeterminate ceratosaur remains.
Liliensternus Liliensternus Liliensternus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, about 205 Ma.Liliensternus was originally named in 1934 by Friedrich von Huene as a second species of Halticosaurus, H. liliensterni, the specific name honouring the German amateur paleontologist, Dr...	L. liliensterni	Thuringen		Two partial skeletons of subadults.	"(=Halticosaurus Halticosaurus Halticosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period . It was a coelophysoid found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of what is present-day Germany... liliensterni)"
Pachysaurus	P. ajax			"Partial skeleton."
	P. magnus			"Fragmentary skeleton."
	P. wetzelianus			"Fragmentary skeletons."
Palaeosaurus Palaeosaurus Several very different genera of prehistoric animals have been named Palaeosaurus or Paleosaurus since the 1830s. Further confusing the matter, all of the species are poorly known or poorly preserved and both spellings have been used interchangeably, even by the same authors.The repeated recurrence...	P. diagnosticus	Sachsen-Anhalt			Actually Plateosaurus longiceps remains.
Plateosaurus Plateosaurus Plateosaurus is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod"...	P. erlenbergiensis			"Partial skull and skeleton."
	P. longiceps	Sachsen-Anhalt Biedersachsen			Includes "cf. Palaeosaurus Palaeosaurus Several very different genera of prehistoric animals have been named Palaeosaurus or Paleosaurus since the 1830s. Further confusing the matter, all of the species are poorly known or poorly preserved and both spellings have been used interchangeably, even by the same authors.The repeated recurrence... ?diagnosticus."
	P. plieningeri			"Partial skeleton."
	P. quenstedti			"Partial skeleton."
Ruehleia Ruehleia Ruehleia is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period of Germany. The type species is R. bedheimensis, described by Galton in 2001, and is named for the German paleontologist Hugo Ruehle von Lilienstern...	R. bedheimensis	Thuringen		"Nearly complete skeleton, [two] incomplete skeletons, juvenile to adult."

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