Braunschweig-Broitzem (Allopleuron locality): Turonian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Allopleuron cf. hofmanni
(Gray 1831)
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| original and current combination Chelonia hoffmanni | ||||||||||
| Proximal fragment of scapula; no catalogue number | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Lower Saxony |
| Coordinates: | 52.1° North, 10.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.9° North, 10.1° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Oerlinghausen |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
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 |
| Collection method comments: Hildesheim Collection, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 138297 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-01-10 05:26:30 | Last modified: | 2013-02-01 08:51:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-01-10 05:26:30 |
| 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] |