Hollekamp quarry (Cretaceous to of Germany)

Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.4° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 7.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wullen Formation, Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 85.8 Ma)

• Exposed layers include the upper part of the Brochterbeck-Formation, the Hesseltal-Formation and the Wüllen-Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mr. P. Lepper in 1988

• Museum of Natural History in Muenster

Primary reference: H.-V. Karl, C. J. Nyhuis, and L. Schollmann. 2012. The first shell remains of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Owen, 1851) from the Upper Cretaceous of NW-Germany (Testudines: Protostegidae). Studia Palaeocheloniologica 4:143-151 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136745: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 04.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Cheloniidae indet.1 Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle
No.A.3A-32
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Rhinochelys pulchriceps2 Owen 1842 sea turtle
LWL P12 877 Carapace and plastron (stretched and shifted)