Pit "Gitter", Salzgitter (Cretaceous of Germany)

Also known as Platypterygius hercynicus type

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.2° N, 10.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 18.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Neocomer Erzhorizont (Neocomian ore horizon)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Weigelt in 1940

Primary reference: C. Kolb and P. M. Sander. 2009. Redescription of the ichthyosaur Platypterygius hercynicus (Kuhn 1946) from the Lower Cretaceous of Salzgitter (Lower Saxony, Germany). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 288:151-192 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122700: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Platypterygius hercynicus n. sp.
Platypterygius hercynicus n. sp. Kuhn 1946 ichthyosaur
SMSS - type (partial skull, vertebral column, partial pectoral girdle, two forefins and parts of the hindfins)
Chondrichthyes
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Notidanus sp.
Notidanus sp. Cuvier 1817 cow shark
Teeth
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet.
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp.
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.