Clay Pit, Engelbostel, Hannover: Early/Lower Hauterivian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Mecochiridae
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Mecochirus ornatus
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Erymidae
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Eryma sulcata
Harbort 1905
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| corrected as Eryma sulcatum | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Nephropidae
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Hoploparia dentata
(Roemer 1841)
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Malacostraca
- Tanaidacea
- Cretitanaidae
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Ophthalmapseudes giganteus n. sp.
Malzahn 1979
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| recombined as Cretitanais giganteus | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Tanaidacea
- Jurapseudidae
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Carlclausus emersoni n. gen., n. sp.
Schram et al. 1986
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Schram et al. 1986 | |||||||||
| Most of non-holotype material of Ophthalmapseudes giganteus Malzahn | ||||||||||
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Thecostraca
- Pollicipomorpha
- Zeugmatolepadidae
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Martillepas hausmanni
(Koch and Dunker 1837)
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Gale 2019 | |||||||||
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Martillepas decoratus n. sp.
Gale 2019
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Gale 2019 | |||||||||
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Etcheslepas borealis
(Collins 1990)
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Gale 2019 | |||||||||
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Thecostraca
- Verrucomorpha
- Pycnolepadidae
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Pedupycnolepas pulcher n. sp.
Gale 2019
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Thecostraca
- Scalpellomorpha
- Scalpellidae
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Jaegerscalpellum elegans n. sp.
Gale 2019
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Gale 2019 | |||||||||
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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Goniasteridae indet.
Forbes 1841
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Weitschat 1984 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Asteroidea
- Paxillosida
- Astropectinidae
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Pentasteria sp.
Valette 1929
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Neumann 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Reptilia
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Ichthyosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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Muller 1990 | |||||||||
| Anterior caudal centrum | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ichthyosauridae
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Ichthyosaurus sp.
Koenig 1818
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Pockrandt 1982 | |||||||||
| Rib fragment | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Ornithocheirus wiedenrothi n. sp.
Wild 1990
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Wild 1990 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| SMNS 56628, fragmentary cranial and postcranial material | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Squatinidae
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Squatina sp.
Dumeril 1806
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Chondrichthyes
- Somniosidae
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Centroscymnus sp.
Barbosa du Bocage and Brito Capello 1864
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Scyllium cf. tumidens
Woodward 1889
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Lamna sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 52.4° North, 9.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.2° North, 18.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Hauterivian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Hauterivian | Ammonoid zone: | Endemoceras amblygonium |
| Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 125.77000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified claystone |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 91586 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling, L. Villier, R. Butler, M. Clapham, V. Fischer | Enterer: | W. Kiessling, M. Clapham, R. Butler, L. Villier, V. Fischer |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-04 04:23:26 | Last modified: | 2009-10-04 06:40:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-10-04 04:23:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30868. | E. Malzahn. 1979. Apseudes giganteus nov. spec. — die erste Scherenassel aus der Kreide. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 82:67-81 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |
Secondary references:
| 72587 | A. Gale. 2019. Thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Hannover, northern Germany. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130:659-672 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 55243 | D. Muller. 1990. Neue Funde unserer Mitglieder: Ichthyosaurierwirbel. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 18(3):66-67 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer] | |
| 31878 | C. Neumann. 2010. Pentasteria sp., ein Kammseestern (Astropectinidae) aus dem Unter-Hauterive von Engelbostel. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 38:35-40 [L. Villier/L. Villier] | |
| 55244 | W. Pockrandt. 1982. Aufgelassene Tongruben der Unterkreide im Norden Hannovers. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 10(5):6-15 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer] | |
| 60644 | F. R. Schram, J. Sieg, and E. Malzahn. 1986. Fossil Tanaidacea. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 21:127-144 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
| 31079 | D. M. Unwin, J. Lü, and N. N. Bakhurina. 2000. On the systematic and stratigraphic significance of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Jehol Group) of Liaoning, China. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe 3:181-206 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 31879 | W. Weitschat. 1984. Ein seltener Seesternfund aus dem Hauterive von Engelbostel. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 12(6):95-96 [L. Villier/L. Villier] | |
| 31387 | R. Wild. 1990. Ein Flugsaurierrest (Reptilia, Pterosauria) aus der Unterkreide (Hauterive) von Hannover (Niedersachen). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 181:241-254 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |