Harrl quarry tracksite, Bückeburg (Cretaceous of Germany)

Also known as Harrel quarry, Harrl-Steinbruche, Bad Rehberg, Hexenteich

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cypridea alta formosa other zone, Obernkirchen Member (Bückeberg Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• possibly correlated with the lower half of the Hastings Beds, "Wealden"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Grabbe, Ballerstedt in 1881, 1900

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 136774: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Eubrontidae
Bueckeburgichnus maximus n. gen. n. sp.4
Bueckeburgichnus maximus n. gen. n. sp.4 Kuhn 1958 theropod
holotype; Geol-Pal Mus Münster B4B.9; Ballerstedt specimens 1–3, 6–7
 Ornithischia -
Struthopus schaumburgensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Ballerstedt 1922 ornithopod
? Iguanodon bernissartensis1 Boulenger 1881 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.3 Marsh 1878 sauropod
now destroyed