Hollekamp quarry: Early/Lower Turonian - Early/Lower Coniacian, Germany
collected by Mr. P. Lepper 1988
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Protostegidae
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Rhinochelys pulchriceps
(Owen 1842)
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Vianey-Liaud and Crochet 1994 | |||||||||
| LWL P12 877 Carapace and plastron (stretched and shifted) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Cheloniidae indet.
Bonaparte 1832
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Diedrich and Hirayama 2003 | |||||||||
| No.A.3A-32 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Lower Saxony |
| Coordinates: | 52.4° North, 6.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.5° North, 7.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Turonian - Early/Lower Coniacian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wullen | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Exposed layers include the upper part of the Brochterbeck-Formation, the Hesseltal-Formation and the Wüllen-Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Mr. P. Lepper | Collection dates: | 1988 |
| Collection method comments: Museum of Natural History in Muenster | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 136745 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-12-04 00:16:12 | Last modified: | 2013-02-01 13:27:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-04 00:16:12 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44230. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 54171 | C. Diedrich and R. Hirayama. 2003. Turtle remains (Testudines, Chelonioidea) from the Middle Turonian of northwest Germany. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 82(2):161-167 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson] | |
| 44320 | M. Vianey-Liaud and J.-Y. Crochet. 1994. Dinosaur eggshells from the Late Cretaceous of Laeguedoc (southern France). Dinosaurs and Other Fossil Reptiles of Europe, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium. Revue de Paléobiologie Volume spécial 7:237-149 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano] |