The Solling Formation is a geologic formation in Germany.Solling Formation at Fossilworks.org 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:
Temnospondyls Parotosuchus nasutusSchoch, 2018 Trematosaurus brauni
Reptiles Anomoiodon liliensterniSäilä, 2008 Ctenosauriscus koeneniVon Huene, 1902 Koiloskiosaurus coburgiensisVon Huene, 1911 Trachelosaurus fischeriBroili & Fischer, 1917
Flora Pleuromeia sternbergii
See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany
References
Bibliography
Further reading H. H. Ecke. 1986. Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken. Dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1-117