Lissauer Breccia Explained

Lissauer Breccia
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Norian, Late Triassic
Period:	Norian
Prilithology:	Breccia
Region:	southern Poland, near Kocury
Coordinates:	50.7778°N 18.4269°W

The Lissauer Breccia, sometimes referred to as the Kocury Locality, is a Norian geologic formation that is part of the larger Keuper limestone, which dominates across most of west and central Europe. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1] The site was studied in 1932^[2] and was later forgotten and not explored until excavations began in 2012, and the Lissauer Breccia was re-described in 2021.^[3]

Fossil content

• Kocurypelta silvestris
• cf. Metaceratodus sp.
• Proterochersis cf. porebensis
• Velocipes guerichi

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

References

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. [Friedrich von Huene|Huene, F. von.]
3. Czepiński . Ł. . Dróżdż . D. . Szczygielski . T. . Tałanda . M. . Pawlak . W. . Lewczuk . A. . Rytel . A. . Sulej . T. . An Upper Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrate Assemblage from the Forgotten Kocury Locality (Poland) with a New Aetosaur Taxon . 2021 . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 41 . e1898977 . 10.1080/02724634.2021.1898977 . 233522981 .