Where: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (53.3° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 10.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lagerdorf Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected in 1915
• Mosbach Collection. Later on the fossil material came to the Prussian Geological Survey in shelter of Dr. Karl Staesche. Moved to Hanover Geological Survey in the 1950s.
Primary reference: H.-V. Karl and C. J. Nyhuis. 2012. Ctenochelys stenoporus (Hay, 1905) (Testudines: Toxochelyidae) and Clidastes sp. (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of NW-Germany. Studia Palaeocheloniologica 4:129-142 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138296: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 10.01.2013, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mosasaurus alseni n. sp., Clidastes sp.
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