Sehnde-Höver (Scholz collection): Early/Lower Campanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Clidastes sp. Cope 1868
Humerus
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Allopleuron cf. hofmanni (Gray 1831)
original and current combination Chelonia hoffmanni
Radius, ulna, four carpals, metacarpal I, phalanx 2/IV
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Lower Saxony County:SE Hanover
Coordinates: 52.9° North, 9.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 9.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: collection of Hans-Peter Scholz (Wolfsburg-Fallersleben)
Metadata
Database number:138298
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-01-10 05:49:32 Last modified:2020-12-30 23:33:44
Access level:the public Released:2013-01-10 05:49:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44226. 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]