Alsen chalk-pit (Lägerdorf): Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Germany
collected 1915
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Ctenochelyidae
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Ctenochelys stenoporus
(Hay 1905)
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Gr.A.24 n.º 8 Mandible and appendicular elements | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Clidastes sp.
Cope 1868
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Gr.A.24 n.º 8 Partial scapula | ||||||||||
Mosasaurus alseni n. sp.
Stolley 1892
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Hornung and Reich 2015 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Tylosaurus | ||||||||||
CAUK G-K-588 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Schleswig-Holstein | County: | Lagerdorf |
Coordinates: | 53.3° North, 9.6° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.7° North, 10.6° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lagerdorf |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | chalk |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1915 |
Collection method comments: 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. |
Metadata
Database number: | 138296 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-01-10 04:18:41 | Last modified: | 2021-03-22 11:30:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-01-10 04:18:41 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
44225. | 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] |
Secondary references:
76000 | J. J. Hornung and M. Reich. 2015. Tylosaurine mosasaurs (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Germany. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94(1):55-71 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |