Wölpinghäuser Berg tracksite: Late/Upper Berriasian, Germany
collected by C. Struckmann, Michaelis 1879

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ornithoidichnites sp. Hitchcock 1841
    = Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825
Struckmann 1894
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Windolf 1998
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Hornung et al. 2012
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Ornithopoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Hornung et al. 2012
    = Iguanodontipus sp. Sarjeant et al. 1998
Hornung et al. 2016
see common names

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:bed
Stratigraphy comments: exact level unknown, Obernkirchen Sandstone within this member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: friable argillaceous sandy layer
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:C. Struckmann, Michaelis Collection dates:1879
Metadata
Also known as:Wölpinghausen, Spörl Quarry, Bad Rehburg
Database number:149731
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-23 07:56:05 Last modified:2019-06-03 16:17:21
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-23 07:56:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62196. C. Struckmann. 1880. Vorläufige Nachricht über das Vorkommen grosser vogelälmlicher Thierfährten (Ornithoidichnites) im Hastingssandsteine von Bad Rehbnrg bei Hannover [Preliminary news on the occurrence of large bird-like animal trails (Ornithoidichnites) in the Hastings Sandstone of Bad Rehbnrg near Hanover]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1880(1):125-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63351 F. Drevermann. 1911. Das Iguanodon [The Iguanodon]. Bericht der Senckenbergischen Naturforschen Gesellschaft 42(2):97-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43062 H. Grabbe. 1881. Neue Funde von Saurier-Fährten im Wealdensandsteine des Bückeberges [New finds of dinosaur footprints in the Wealden sandstone of Bückeberg]. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens, Vierte Folge 38:161-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56193 H. Grabbe. 1883. Die Schaumburg-Lippe'sche Wealden-Mulde [The Schaumburg-Lippe'sche Wealden Valley] 1-61 [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]
69081 J. J. Hornung, A. Böhme, N. Schlüter and M. Reich. 2016. Diversity, ontogeny, or both? A morphometric approach to iguanodontian ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) track assemblages from the Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) of northwestern Germany. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 202-225 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62309 C. Struckmann. 1894. Ueber einen Zahn des Iguanodon aus dem Wealden von Sehnde bei Lehrte [On a tooth of Iguanodon from the Wealden of Sehnde near Lehrte]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 46:828-831 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33897ETE R. Windolf. 1998. Dinosaurierfunde in Niedersachsen [Dinosaur finds in Lower Saxony]. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 26:1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68227 T. C. Winkler. 1886. Histoire de l’Ichnologie. Étude Ichnologique sur les Empreintes de Pas d’Animaux Fossiles, Suivie de la Description des Plaques à Impressions d’Animaux qui se Trouvent au Musée Teyler [History of Ichnology. Ichnological Study of Fossil Animal Footprints, Followed by the Description of Slabs with Animal Impressions found in Teyler’s Museum] iv-200 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]