Stadtländer Quarry tracksite: Late/Upper Berriasian, Germany
collected by Wilde, G. Pelzer
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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= ? Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Hornung et al. 2012 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Niedersachsen |
| Coordinates: | 52.4° North, 9.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 17.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Berriasian | Other zone: | Cypridea alta formosa |
| Age range of interval: | 140.60000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bückeberg | Member: | Obernkirchen | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Obernkircher Sandstone bed, ca. 4 m above Hauptflöz coal seam. Two levels with tracks. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | paleosol/pedogenic siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Wilde, G. Pelzer |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Münchehagen | ||
| Database number: | 139586 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-02-14 08:05:05 | Last modified: | 2015-08-27 16:28:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-02-14 08:05:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 56194. | G. Pelzer. 1998. Sedimentologie und palynologie der Wealden-Fazies im Hannoverschen Bergland [Sedimentology and palynology of the Wealden facies in the Hannover region]. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 207:1-211; A1–27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54204 | Anonymous. 1923. Footprints in the sands of time. Science 56 (supp.)(1500):xii-xiii [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 56191 | J. J. Hornung, A. Böhme, T. Lubbe, M. Reich, and A. Richter. 2012. Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany—their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86(3):231-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |