Barkhausen tracksite (Unit 9) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Niedersachsen, Germany (52.3° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "middle part of the Lower Kimmeridgian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; paleosol/pedogenic sandstone and gray, green, red, sandy claystone

• "sandstone in 0.30 to 0.50 m banks, with passages of reddish or gray-green sandy clays and cross-stratification."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Ballerstedt; C. Meyer, M. Lockley in 1921, 1998–1999, 2020

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. Schmidt. 1959. Die Cornberger Fährten im Rahmen der Vierfüssler-Entwicklung [The Cornberger tracks as part of the evolution of quadrupeds]. Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung 28:1-137 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 121154: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Megalosauridae indet.1
trackways f, g
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Eubrontidae
"Megalosauropus teutonicus n. gen. n. sp." = Jurabrontes teutonicus2
"Megalosauropus teutonicus n. gen. n. sp." = Jurabrontes teutonicus2 Kaever and Lapparent 1974 theropod
trackways f, g
 Saurischia - Parabrontopodidae
"Elephantopoides barkhausensis n. gen. n. sp." = Parabrontopodus barkhausensis2
"Elephantopoides barkhausensis n. gen. n. sp." = Parabrontopodus barkhausensis2 Kaever and Lapparent 1974 sauropod
trackways a, b, c, d, e