Also known as Theropod locality, Busche Quarry

Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51.3° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• The karstic infill deposits of Balve were dated by the association of early angiosperm pollen as late Early Cretaceous, most probably late Barremian to early Aptian (Lanser and Heimhofer, 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: karst; lithified, gray claystone and gray siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by LWL Museum fur Naturkunde, Munster in 2000—

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Since 2002, annual excavations have been carried out at this site

Primary reference: K.-P. Lanser and U. Heinhofer. 2015. Evidence of theropod dinosaurs from a Lower Cretaceous karst filling in the northern Sauerland (Rhenish Massif, Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89:79-94 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152548: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 25.11.2013, edited by Grace Varnham, Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos

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