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-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.