antiquus

Updated: July 4, 2025

This breccia has accordingly been considered by Professor Quenstedt, and other German geologists of high authority, as the newest or uppermost part of the Trias. Professor Plieninger found in it, in 1847, the molar tooth of a small Triassic mammifer, called by him Microlestes antiquus.

Sir Charles Lyell - The Student's Elements of Geology