Also known as Former Bremer brick yard

Where: Germany (51.5° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bottrop Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Bottrop Formation, lingua/quadrata to gracilis/senior zones, lower Campanian (corresponding to the Placenticeras bidorsatum to Scaphites gibbus zones)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Arno Heinrich in the 1960s-1970s

• Collected in the 1960s and 1970s at the former Bremer brickyard (Bottrop) by Arno Heinrich (1929–2009) of the Museumszentrum Quadrat, Museum für Ur- und Ortsgeschichte at Bottrop

Primary reference: S. Sachs, J. J. Hornung, and U. Scheer. 2018. Mosasaurid and plesiosaurian remains from marginal facies of the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Bottrop and Vaals formations of western Germany. Cretaceous Research 87:358-367 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76843: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.12.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

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