Genus: Tatrasuchus MARYANSKA & SHISHKIN, 1996
Etymology: In reference to the Tatra Mountains, southern Poland, and Greek, souchus, "crocodile."
= Kupferzella SCHOCH, 1997
Etymology: Kupferzella refers to the exceptional Fossil-Lagerstatte at Kuperfzell, village Bauersbach, Germany (Mundlos & Wegele 1978, Wild, 1978, 1980, 1981), which did not only yield the material of this new genus, but many skeletons of Mastodonsaurus jaegeri, two plagiosaur genera, a new rauischid genus, nothosaur elements, vertebrae of a yet unidentified theraspid, and dipnoans, described by Schutlze, 1981.

Species: kulczyckii MARYANSKA & SHISHKIN, 1996 (Type)
Etymology: In honor of the late Polish paleontologist Doctor Julian Kulczycki.

Holotype: Museum of Earth, Warsaw, MZ VIII Va 6

Locality: Wielkie Koryciska Valley, Tatra Mountain Range, southern Poland.

Horizon: Partnach beds, Furkaska Unit.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Anisian-Landian boundary, Middle Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material: Incomplete skull and mandible, disintegrated into a number of fragments, and two articulated intercentra.

Referred material:

MZ VIII Va 7-12.

 

= Kupferzella 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-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, 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, 1922

Locality: Gaildorf, Hohenlohe, northern Baden-Württemburg State, southwestern Germany.

Horizon: Lettenkohle.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Triassic.

Material:

SMNS 55908: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton, Interclavicle and clavicale.

 

SCHOCH & MORENO, 2024

Locality: Kupferzell, K3, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Green siltstone, Upper Lettenkeuper series.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Uppermost Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

SMNS 80876: Parasphenoid.

SMNS 80959: Postorbital.

SMNS 90963: Pterygoid.

SMNS 81070: Symphysis.

SMNS 81561: Dentary.

SMNS 80960: Tabular.

 

Locality: Kupferzell, K4, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Yellow marlstones, Upper Lettenkeuper series.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Uppermost Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

SMNS 54671-54674: 4 partial skulls.

 

Locality: Velberg, E5, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Brown Siltstone, Upper Lettenkeuper series.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

MHI-Ku 1993/1: Skull.

MHI-Ku 1993/3: SKull with mandible.

MHI-Ku 1993/6: Skull.

MHI-Ku 1994/4: Interclavicle.

SMNS 91708: Disarticulated skull.

SMNS 97107: SKull.

SMNS 97108: Partially disarticualted skull.

 

Locality: Velberg, E6, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Grey Mudstone, Upper Lettenkeuper series.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

MHI-KU 1993/2: Half of a small skull.

SMNS 91088: Clavicle.

SMNS 91094: Clavicle.

SMNS 91096: Clavicle.

SMNS 91276: Pterygoid.

SMNS 91277: Mandible.

SMNS 91278: Tabular.

SMNS 91612: Disarticulated the skull.

SMNS 91694: Interclavicle.

SMNS 91704: 2 condyles.

SMNS 91705: Skull bones.

SMNS 91805: MAndible.

SMNS 91817: 12 skull bones.

SMNS 91818: Skull bones.

SMNS 91853: DEntary.

SMNS 91853: 8 skull bones.

SMNS 91914: Postglenoid region.

SMNS 91980: Postglenoid region.

SMNS 91797: Skull.

 

Locality: Wolpertshausen, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Top of the Untere Graue Mergel

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

MHI: SIolated skull bones.

 

Locality: Michelbach an der Bilz, Leitenäcker excavation, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Sandige Pflanzenschiefer

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

MHI and SMNS: Skull bonres.

 

Locality: Michelbach an der Bilz, Wilhelmsglück quarry, Baden-Württemburg State, Southwest Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Lingula-Dolomiete.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

MHI: Impression of partial skull.

 

Locality: Arnstadt-Nort, road construction site, Thuringian State, Germany.

Horizon: Erfurt Formation, Lingula-Dolomiete.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.

Material:

NHMS-WT 3314: Symphysis.