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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Reptilia | |
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Rhinochelys pulchriceps2 Owen 1842 sea turtle LWL P12 877 Carapace and plastron (stretched and shifted)
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