{{Short description|Geologic formation in Germany}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Solling Formation | image = | caption = | type = Formation | age = Olenekian-Anisian<br>(Spathian-Aegean)<br>~{{fossil range|251.3|242}} | period = Anisian | prilithology = Claystone | otherlithology = Siltstone | namedfor = | namedby = | region = Bavaria, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thuringia | country = Germany | coordinates = {{coord|50.3|N|11.0|E|display=inline,title}} | paleocoordinates = {{coord|16.2|N|19.7|E|display=inline}} | unitof = Buntsandstein Group | subunits = Solling-Bausandstein & Chirotherium Sandstone Members | underlies = | overlies = | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = {{Location map+ | Germany | relief = 1 | width = 250 | float = center | places = {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 50.3 | lon_deg = 11.0 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 51.8 | lon_deg = 11.7 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 50.5 | lon_deg = 10.7 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} {{Location map~ | Germany | lat_deg = 51.5 | lon_deg = 10.0 | mark = Pink ff0080 pog.svg | marksize = 10 }} }} | map_caption = }} The '''Solling Formation''' is a geologic formation in Germany.<ref name=FW>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=Solling&group_formation_member=Solling Solling Formation] at Fossilworks.org</ref> Formerly considered earliest Triassic (Induan), but later dating places the formation from the Olenekian to Anisian of the Triassic period.
== Description == The formation is subdivided into three members, the lower Solling-Bausandstein Member, the Trendelburg/Karlshafen Beds and the upper Chirotherium Sandstone Member.
== Fossil content == The following fossils have been reported from the formation:<ref name=FW/>
=== Temnospondyls === * ''Parotosuchus nasutus''<ref name=Schoch2018>Schoch, 2018</ref> * ''Trematosaurus brauni''<ref name=Schoch2018/>
=== Reptiles === * ''Anomoiodon liliensterni''<ref name=Saila2008>Säilä, 2008</ref> * ''Ctenosauriscus koeneni''<ref name=Huene1902>Von Huene, 1902</ref> * ''Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis''<ref name=Huene1911>Von Huene, 1911</ref> * ''Trachelosaurus fischeri''<ref name=Broili1917>Broili & Fischer, 1917</ref>
=== Flora === * ''Pleuromeia sternbergii''<ref name=Broili1917/>
== See also == * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany
== References == {{reflist|2}}
=== Bibliography === <!--most recent first--> * {{citation |last=Schoch |first=R. R |year=2018 |title=The temnospondyl ''Parotosuchus nasutus'' (v. Meyer, 1858) from the Early Triassic Middle Buntsandstein of Germany |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=11 |pages=107–126|doi=10.18476/pale.11.a6 }} * {{citation |last=Säilä |first=L. K |year=2008 |title=The Osteology and Affinities of ''Anomoiodon liliensterni'', a Procolophonid Reptile from the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Germany |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=1199–1205|doi=10.1671/0272-4634-28.4.1199 |bibcode=2008JVPal..28.1199S }} * {{citation |last1=Broili |first1=F. |first2=E. |last2=Fischer |year=1917 |title=''Trachelosaurus fischeri'' nov. gen. nov. sp. Ein neuer Saurier aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg |journal=Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin |volume=37 |pages=359–414}} * {{citation |last=von Huene |first=F |year=1911 |title=Ueber die Procolophoniden, mit einer neuen Form aus dem Buntsandstein |journal=Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie |volume=1911 |pages=78–83}} * {{citation |last=von Huene |first=F |year=1902 |title=Übersicht über die Reptilien der Trias - Review of the Reptilia of the Triassic |journal=Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Neue Serie) Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena |volume=6 |pages=1–84}}
== Further reading == * H. H. Ecke. 1986. Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken. Dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1-117
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