{{Short description|Geologic formation in Germany}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Stuttgart Formation | image = | caption = | type = Formation | age = Carnian<br>~{{fossil range|235|222}} | period = Carnian | prilithology = Sandstone | otherlithology = Claystone | namedfor = Stuttgart | namedby = | year_ts = | region = Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia | country = Germany, Switzerland | coordinates = {{coord|49.2|N|9.3|E|display=inline}} | paleocoordinates = {{coord|21.4|N|14.9|E|display=inline}} | unitof = Keuper | subunits = Ansbachersandstein & Schilfsandstein members | underlies = Weser & Steigerwald Formations | overlies = Grabfeld & Benk Formations | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = {{Location map+ | Germany | relief = 1 | width = 250 | float = center | places = {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 49.8 | lon_deg = 9.9 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 48.8 | lon_deg = 9.2 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 49.1 | lon_deg = 9.3 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 52.0 | lon_deg = 8.5 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 48.9 | lon_deg = 9.4 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 48.5 | lon_deg = 8.9 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 49.4 | lon_deg = 10.5 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 47.6 | lon_deg = 7.6 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 49.2 | lon_deg = 9.3 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} }} | map_caption = }} The '''Stuttgart Formation''' is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carnian stage of the Triassic period.<ref name=FW>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Stuttgart&group_formation_member=Stuttgart Stuttgart Formation] at Fossilworks.org</ref>
== Fossil content == {{see also|Ansbachersandstein#Fossil content}}
=== Temnospondyls === {{div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Cyclotosaurus buechneri''<ref name=Witzmann2016>Witzmann et al., 2016</ref> * ''C. robustus''<ref name=Schoch2000>Schoch & Milner, 2000</ref> * ''Hyperokynodon keuperinus''<ref name=Schoch2000/> * ''Mastodonsaurus andriani''<ref name=Munster1839>Münster, 1839</ref> * ''Metoposaurus diagnosticus''<ref name=Sulej2002>Sulej, 2002</ref> * ''Gerrothorax sp.''<ref name=Schoch2012/> {{div col end}}
=== Therapsids === * Kannemeyeriiformes indet.(Possibly ''Woznikella triradiata'')<ref name=Schoch2012/>
=== Reptiles === * ''Calamosuchus arenaceus''<ref name="S&S25">{{Cite journal |last1=Sues |first1=Hans-Dieter |last2=Schoch |first2=Rainer R. |date=2025-12-04 |title=Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany |journal=Fossil Record |language=en |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=411–483 |doi=10.3897/fr.28.164405 |doi-access=free |issn=2193-0074}}</ref> * ''Dyoplax arenaceus'' * ''Thuringopelta werneburgi''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sues |first1=H.-D. |last2=Schoch |first2=R. R. |year=2025 |title=A doswelliid archosauriform from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) Stuttgart Formation of Thuringia (Germany) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |at=e2455949 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2025.2455949 }}</ref> * ''Zanclodon subcylindrodon''<ref name=Huene1905>Huene, 1905</ref> * Archosauria indet.<ref name=Schoch2012/>
=== Fish === * ''Lissodus sp.''<ref name=Schoch2012>Schoch, 2012</ref> * ''Palaeobates sp.''<ref name=Linck1968>Linck, 1968</ref>
;Invertebrates<ref name=Linck1968/> {{div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Aviculomyalina angusta'' * ''Cyzicus laxitextus'' * ''C. cf. dorsorectus'' * ''C. minutus'' * ''Homomya bilonga'' * ''H. simplex'' * ''Myalina rotundata'' * ''Mytilus acutefinitus'' * ''M. avirostrum'' * ''M. hasta'' * ''M. minutus'' * ''M. peregrinus'' * ''M. sulmensis'' * ''Lithophaga buchhornensis'' * ''L. lennachensis'' * ''L. producta'' * ''L. vermiculata'' * ''Mactromya altera'' * ''M. equisetitis'' * ''Modiolus eberstadtensis'' * ''M. formosissimus'' * ''M. mediocarinatus'' * ''M. minalatus'' * ''M. parallelus'' * ''M. parvoblongus'' * ''M. suprarectus'' * ''M. transiens'' * ''M. triangulus'' * ''Myoconcha aperina'' * ''M. longaperina'' * ''M. ovulum'' * ''M. scalprosa'' * ''M. cf. woehrmanni'' * ''M. aff. aquatensis'' * ''Parallelodon beyrichii'' * ''Pinna mediokeuperina'' * ''Pleuromya curta'' * ''P. nitens'' * ''Schafhaeutlia aff. liscaviensis'' * ''Thracia keuperina'' * ''Trigonodus cf. grandis'' * ''T. pygmaeus'' * ''T. singularis'' * ''T. wuertembergicus'' * ''Asmussia sp.'' * ''Gervillia sp.'' * ''?Gryphaea sp.'' * ''Myoconcha sp.'' * ''Mytilus sp.'' * ''Trigonodus sp.'' {{div col end}}
=== Flora === {{div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Clathrophyllum meriani''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Danaeopsis marantacea''<ref name=Kustatscher2012>Kustatscher et al., 2012</ref> * ''D. rumphi''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Desmiophyllum imhoffi''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Dioonitocarpidium pennaeforme''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Neocalamites meriani''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Pagiophyllum foetterlei''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Voltziopsis coburgensis''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Widdringtonites keuperianus''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Equisetites sp.''<ref name=Linck1968/> * ''Pterophyllum sp.''<ref name=Linck1968/> {{div col end}}
== See also == {{div col|colwidth=29em}} * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Switzerland * Benkersandstein, contemporaneous ichnofossiliferous formation of Bavaria * Chañares Formation, fossiliferous formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin, Argentina * Candelária Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of the Paraná Basin, Brazil * Molteno Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Lesotho and South Africa * Pebbly Arkose Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe * Denmark Hill Insect Bed, contemporaneous fossiliferous unit of Queensland, Australia * Madygen Formation, contemporaneous Lagerstätte of Kyrgyzstan {{div col end}}
== References == {{reflist|2}}
=== Bibliography === <!--most recent first--> * {{citation |last1=Witzmann |first1=F. |first2=S. |last2=Sachs |first3=C. J. |last3=Nyhuis |year=2016 |title=A new species of ''Cyclotosaurus'' (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus |url=https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/19/83/2016/ |journal=Fossil Record |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=83–100 |doi=10.5194/fr-19-83-2016 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016FossR..19...83W |accessdate=2020-10-19}} * {{citation |last1=Kustatscher |first1=E. |first2=K.-P. |last2=Kelber |first3=J. H. A. |last3=Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert |year=2012 |title=''Danaeopsis'' Heer ex Schimper 1869 and its European Triassic species |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=183 |pages=32–49|doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.06.011 |bibcode=2012RPaPa.183...32K }} * {{citation |last=Schoch |first=R. R |year=2012 |title=A dicynodont mandible from the Triassic of Germany forms the first evidence of large herbivores in the Central European Carnian |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=263 |issue=2 |pages=119–123|doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0216 }} * {{citation |last=Sulej |first=T |year=2002 |title=Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian ''Metoposaurus diagnosticus'' |url=https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app47/app47-535.pdf |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=47 |pages=535–546 |accessdate=2020-10-19}} * {{citation |last1=Schoch |first1=R. |first2=A. R. |last2=Milner |year=2000 |title=Stereospondyli |journal=Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie |volume=3B |pages=1–203}} * {{citation |last=Linck |first=O |year=1968 |title=Die marinen Muschelfauna des Schilfsandsteins von Eberstadt, Wuerttemberg, (Trias, Karn, mittl. Keuper 2) und deren Bedeutung |journal=Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterlaendsiche Naturkunde in Wuerttemberg |volume=123 |pages=69–133}} * {{citation |last=Huene |first=F. von |year=1905 |title=Trias-Dinosaurier Europas - European Triassic dinosaurs |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft |volume=57 |pages=345–349}} * {{citation |last=Fraas |first=E |year=1896 |title=Die Schwäbischen Trias-Saurier nach dem Material der Kgl. Naturalien-Sammlung in Stuttgart zusammengestellt - Swabian Triassic dinosaurs based on the material in the Royal Natural History Collection compiled in Stuttgart |publisher=Festgabe des Königlichen Naturalien-Cabinets In Stuttgart zur 42 Versammlung der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft in Stuttgart, August 1896. E. Schweizerbartische Verlag-handlung (E. Koch), Stuttgart |pages=1–18}} * {{citation |last=Münster |first=G. G |year=1839 |title=''Mastodonsaurus andriani'' |journal=Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde |volume= |pages=102–103}}
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