# Solling Formation

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{{Short description|Geologic formation in Germany}}
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| type           = [Formation](/source/Formation_(stratigraphy))
| age            = [Olenekian](/source/Olenekian)-[Anisian](/source/Anisian)<br>([Spathian](/source/Spathian)-[Aegean](/source/Aegean_stage))<br>~{{fossil range|251.3|242}}
| period         = Anisian
| prilithology   = [Claystone](/source/Claystone)
| otherlithology = [Siltstone](/source/Siltstone)
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| region         = [Bavaria](/source/Bavaria), [Niedersachsen](/source/Niedersachsen), [Sachsen-Anhalt](/source/Sachsen-Anhalt), [Thuringia](/source/Thuringia)
| country        = Germany
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| unitof         = [Buntsandstein Group](/source/Buntsandstein_Group)
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The '''Solling Formation''' is a [geologic formation](/source/Formation_(geology)) in [Germany](/source/Germany).<ref name=FW>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Buntsandstein&formation=Solling&group_formation_member=Solling Solling Formation] at [Fossilworks](/source/Fossilworks).org</ref> Formerly considered earliest [Triassic](/source/Triassic) ([Induan](/source/Induan)), but later dating places the formation from the [Olenekian](/source/Olenekian) to [Anisian](/source/Anisian) of the Triassic [period](/source/Period_(geology)).

== 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](/source/Parotosuchus)''<ref name=Schoch2018>Schoch, 2018</ref>
* ''[Trematosaurus brauni](/source/Trematosaurus)''<ref name=Schoch2018/>

=== Reptiles ===
* ''[Anomoiodon liliensterni](/source/Anomoiodon)''<ref name=Saila2008>Säilä, 2008</ref>
* ''[Ctenosauriscus koeneni](/source/Ctenosauriscus)''<ref name=Huene1902>Von Huene, 1902</ref>
* ''[Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensis](/source/Koiloskiosaurus)''<ref name=Huene1911>Von Huene, 1911</ref>
* ''[Trachelosaurus fischeri](/source/Trachelosaurus)''<ref name=Broili1917>Broili & Fischer, 1917</ref>

=== Flora ===
* ''[Pleuromeia sternbergii](/source/Pleuromeia)''<ref name=Broili1917/>

== See also ==
* [List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany](/source/List_of_fossiliferous_stratigraphic_units_in_Germany)

== References ==
{{reflist|2}}

=== Bibliography ===
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* {{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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Jahrbuch_der_K%C3%B6niglich_Preussischen_geologischen_Landesanstalt_zu_Berlin) |volume=37 |pages=359–414}}
* {{citation |last=[von Huene](/source/Friedrich_von_Huene) |first=F |year=1911 |title=Ueber die Procolophoniden, mit einer neuen Form aus dem Buntsandstein |journal=[Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie](/source/Centralblatt_f%C3%BCr_Mineralogie%2C_Geologie_und_Pal%C3%A4ontologie) |volume=1911 |pages=78–83}}
* {{citation |last=[von Huene](/source/Friedrich_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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