Aachen-Bildchen (Lütticher Straße road cutting): Early/Lower Campanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Hainosaurus sp. Dollo 1885
NHMM VG 2184, single tooth crown
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 6.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.4° North, 7.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vaals
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Vaals Formation (unknown member; according to Jagt, 2005, probably Gemmenich or Vaalsbroek Member), granulataquadrata to lingua/quadrata zones, lowermost Campanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Near Kelmis/La Calamine
Database number:142715
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-15 21:21:12 Last modified:2021-03-22 10:49:12
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-15 21:21:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

46315. J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Stratigraphic ranges of mosasaurs in Belgium and the Netherlands (Late Cretaceous) and cephalopod-based correlations with North America. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):283-301 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]

Secondary references:

75999 S. Sachs, J. J. Hornung, and U. Scheer. 2018. Mosasaurid and plesiosaurian remains from marginal facies of the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Bottrop and Vaals formations of western Germany. Cretaceous Research 87:358-367 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]