Species: wildi SCHOCH, 1997
Etymology: In honor of Rupert Wild, curator of the Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde
at Stuttgart, who discovered and identified the holotype as well as the rest
of the hypodigm in April, 1977.
Holotype: SMNS 54670
Locality: The tetrapod Lagerstatte exposed during the highway (Autobahn) building near the village Bauersbach, Kuperfzell, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Wurttemberg State, Southwest Germany.
Horizon: The Untere Graue Mergel (literally ‘lower grey marls’) of the Upper Lettenkeuper series.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Uppermost Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.
Material: An almost complete skull and lower jaw, both the skull and lower jaw are broken and dislocated along the midline sutures.
Hypodigm. SMNS 54671-54674: 4 very fragmentary specimens have been found together.
Referred material:
SMNS 54673, 80959, 80962, 80965-67, 81070, 81260, 8161:
SCHOCH, 2015
MHI KU 1993/3: Skull and mandible.
MHI KU 1993/4: Interclavicle.
= Plagosaurid HUENE, 1922NR. 13331
Locality: Gaildorf, Hohenlohe, northern Baden-Wurttemberg State, southwestern Germany.
Horizon: Lettenkohle.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
SMNS 55908: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton, Interclavicle and clavicale.