Diadectids are also known from Germany. "Phanerosaurus" was described from several vertebrae near Zwickau by German paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1860, but was not recognized as a diadectid until 1925. A second species of "Phanerosaurus" was identified from some vertebrae and a fragmentary skull in 1882, and was given its own genus, "Stephanospondylus", in 1905. In 1998, a new species of "Diadectes", "D. absitus", was described from the Bromacker sandstone quarry of the Tambach Formation in the Thuringian Forest of central Germany. A new genus of diadectid called "Orobates" was also named from the Bromacker Quarry in 2004.