Vellbergia bartholomaei Sobral, Simões, & Schoch, 2020 Holotype. SMNS 91590, partial skull obliquely exposed in left lateral view (Fig. 11 B). Type locality. Schumann Quarry, Bed E 6, near Eschenau, Vellberg municipality, Schwäbisch Hall district, Baden-Württemberg. Type horizon. Untere Graue Mergel, Erfurt Formation, Lower Keuper Subgroup. Age: Middle Triassic (Ladinian: Longobardian). Diagnosis. Distinguished by the following combination of features: frontal with distinct anterolateral and large posterolateral process; prefrontal dorsoventrally deep and not expanded; and symphyseal portion of hemimandible strongly turned medially (based on Sobral et al. 2020). Comments. The phylogenetic analysis by Sobral et al. (2020) found Vellbergia bartholomaei as an early-diverging lepidosauromorph. Ford et al. (2021) recovered this taxon as the sister-taxon to Rhynchocephalia. References. Sobral et al. (2020), Ford et al. (2021).

Published as part of Sues, Hans-Dieter & Schoch, Rainer R., 2025, Synopsis of the Triassic reptiles from Germany, pp. 411-483 in Fossil Record 28 (2) on pages 411-483, DOI: 10.3897/fr.28.164405