Obernkirchen, Bückeburg (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.3° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 17.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Obernkirchen Member (Bückeberg Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous claystone

• calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Ballerstedt in 1900-1930

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Max Ballerstedt of the Gymnasium Adolfinum, Bückeburg

Primary reference: S. W. Salisbury, P. M. A. Willis, S. Peitz and P. M. Sander. 1999. The crocodilian Goniopholis simus from the Lower Cretaceous of north-western Germany. In D. M. Unwin (ed.), Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:121-148 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122854: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.01.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

• Five of the eight Goniopholis skull specimens are now missing and only represented by photographs and casts
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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Metatetrapous valdensis
Metatetrapous valdensis Nopcsa 1923 ankylosaur
Metatetrapous valdensis ichnotaxon
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis simus
Goniopholis simus Owen 1879 crocodilian
IMGPGo 741-6 (natural mould of the dorsal and ventral surfaces of a skull), GAB Sch. 1 (natural mould of the ventral surface of a skull) and DFMMh Sch. 1a (natural mould of the dorsal surface of a skull). Five additional skulls are now lost and only represented by photos and casts. Some of the material was referred to 'Goniopholis pugnax' and 'Goniopholis minor' by Edinger (1938)