Thuringopelta werneburgi Sues & Schoch, 2025

Sues, Hans-Dieter & Schoch, Rainer R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany, Fossil Record 28 (2), pp. 411-483 : 411-483

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scientific name	Thuringopelta werneburgi Sues & Schoch, 2025
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Treatment

Holotype.

MB.R.6300-3 , paramedian osteoderm.

Type locality.

Former Klapproth brick pit (now reclaimed as part of a nature preserve), Mittelhausen (now part of the city of Erfurt), Thuringia.

Type horizon.

Stuttgart Formation, Middle Keuper Subgroup. Age: Late Triassic (Carnian: Julian).

Referred material.

Twenty-nine additional osteoderms are cataloged in two lots: MB. R. 6300 , comprising 10 osteoderms ( MB. R. 6300.1 – MB. R. 6300.2 and MB. R. 6300.4 – MB. R. 6300.10), and MB. R. 6301 , comprising 17 osteoderms ( MB. R. 6301.1 – MB. R. 6301.17) although, according to the museum records, the latter inventory number originally comprised “ 26 fragments (bony plates etc.). ” Four osteoderm fragments examined by Sues and Schoch (2025) lacked catalog numbers.

Diagnosis.

Distinguished by the following combination of features: osteoderms thin ( 2–4 mm) and flexed transversely to various degrees; anterior articular lamina not separated by groove from ornamented portion of dorsal surface of dorsal flange; dorsal eminence low, often poorly delineated in dorsal view, terminating posteriorly in tubercle on lateral osteoderms; and lateral osteoderms with small posterolateral flange.

Comments.

Michael (1932) originally assigned these osteoderms to the capitosauroid temnospondyl Mastodonsaurus giganteus , which lacks dermal armor. They represent the first Late Triassic record of Doswelliidae from the CEB.

References.

Michael (1932), Sues and Schoch (2025).