Also known as Tönjes Berg
Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.4° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 17.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• "Oberen Jura" (Portis 1878)
•"Lower Kimmeridgian in the German sense, imprecise: it is at least as old as the area Mutabilis after ostracods, and possibly even earlier, according to R. Böttcher (pers. comm.)" (translation of Lapparent de Broin et al. 1996, p. 536)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Primary reference: A. Portis. 1878. Ueber Fossile Schildkröten aus dem Kimmeridge von Hannover 1-13 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138029: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.01.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiochelys minor n. sp., "Plesiochelys hannoverana n. sp." = Plesiochelys etalloni, Stylemys lindenensis n. sp.
"Plesiochelys hannoverana n. sp." = Plesiochelys etalloni Pictet and Humbert 1857 turtle
Stylemys lindenensis n. sp. Maack 1869 turtle GZG 773-18 to GZG 773-34 (syntypes), a series of fragmentary and disarticulated shell elements
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Chelonides wittei n. gen. n. sp.
Chelonides wittei n. gen. n. sp. Maack 1869 turtle | |
Tropidemys seebachi n. sp., Chelonides robusta n. sp.
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