Odenwaldia heidelbergensis
The Odenwaldia heidelbergensis was not a very small amphibian, this sandstone-temporal river landscapes. A immortalized in the sandstone impression of the skull length of 28 cm was found in 1961 in Waldkatzenbach in southern Odenwald (Image: Hahl) . The small village at the foot of the 626 m high Katzenbuckel volcanic relic is from the scientific fund allocation by Morales & Kamphausen in 1984 as type locality this Urlurchs and is thus reported in the scientific contributions of all the world along with the name of the amphibious ambush hunter. A nice contribution to popular science Waldkatzenbach Riesenlurch was published in 2007 by Dr. Marco Lichtenberger, who is also in his book "dinosaur from the Odenwald" our amphibious river giants among the paleontological motion adopted. One of the international luminaries in the research field of Triassic amphibians - he earned his doctorate on the Mastodonsaurus - is Dr. Rainer R. Schoch from the National Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart. He has now published, in December 2008, a paleontological article that deals centrally with a reclassification of Odenwaldia heidelbergensis. It says "The phylogeny of Capito dinosaurs, the largest of Earth's amphibians, is still discussed controversially. As a key taxon in this debate is Odenwaldia heidelbergensis from Waldkatzenbach, which is here described as new."
For all the freaks who want to know about it - please along here ... to scientific publication of Rainer R. Schoch (2008): The Capitosauria (Amphibia): characters, phylogeny and stratigraphy. In: Palaeodiversity 1: 189-226, Stuttgart, 30.12.2008.
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