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Introduction |
| Thanks to numerous field trips, hobby fossil collecting and even sometimes buying, a variety of specimens from other stages than the Triassic came into my possession. I'm especially interested in specimens that allow one, by specific preservation, an important evolutionary position or characteristic fossil assemblages, to get some information about the past living and environmental conditions.
In the following, I will present a selection of these specimens, together with a short abstract of the events that were important at, or characteristic for, a certain period. According to this objective, I will not show superb display specimens only, and an endless presentation of well-known "standard" fossils from known locations is also not intended. The additional stratigraphic tables are according to internationally used divisions. As there are sometimes differences in dividing continental and marine facies I have used the stratigraphic divisions common in middle Europe and Germany. |