Moorberg claypit, Sarstedt (Cretaceous of Germany)

Also known as Lagenanectes-type locality

Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.2° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 18.4° E)

When: Hibolithes jaculoides other zone, Stadthagen Formation (Minden-Braunschweig Group), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)

• Given as Hibolites jaculoides zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by K. Wiedenroth and F. O. Finzel in 1964

Primary reference: S. Sachs, J. J. Hornung, and B. P. Kear. 2017. A new basal elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:e1301945 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209709: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 12.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Lagenanectes richterae n. gen. n. sp.
Lagenanectes richterae n. gen. n. sp. Sachs et al. 2017 elasmosaur
BGR Ma 13328