Chalk pit Alemannia, Höver (lingua/quadrata subzone) (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gonioteuthis quadrata quadrata other zone, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Gonioteuthis quadrata quadrata zone, lingua/quadrata subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, peroxide, sieve

• Repository: Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Hannover (IGPH)

Primary reference: D. Thies and A. Müller. 1993. A neoselachian fauna (Vertebrata, Pisces) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Höver, near Hannover (NW Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 67:89-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228233: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Squaliformes - Somniosidae
"Palaeomicroides ursulae n. gen. n. sp." = Protoxynotus misburgensis Herman 1975 sleeper shark
Centroscymnus praecursor Muller and Schollmann 1989 sleeper shark
Cretascymnus westfalicus Muller and Schollmann 1989 sleeper shark
 Squaliformes - Etmopteridae
Eoetmopterus supracretaceus Müller and Schöllmann 1989 shark
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Squatina ? baumbergensis von der Marck 1885 angel shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Hexanchus ? gracilis Davis 1887 sixgill shark