Sehnde-Höver (Scholz collection) (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.9° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: collection of Hans-Peter Scholz (Wolfsburg-Fallersleben)

Primary reference: H.-V. Karl, E. Groning, and C. Brauckmann. 2012. New materials of the giant sea turtle Allopleuron (Testudines: Chelonioidea) from the marine Late Cretaceous of Central Europe and the Palaeogene of Kazakhstan. Studia Palaeocheloniologica 4:153-173 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138298: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 10.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Clidastes sp. Cope 1868 mosasaur
Humerus
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
"Allopleuron cf. hofmanni" = Allopleuron hoffmanni
"Allopleuron cf. hofmanni" = Allopleuron hoffmanni Gray 1831 sea turtle
Radius, ulna, four carpals, metacarpal I, phalanx 2/IV