Alemannia quarry, Höver (Cretaceous of Germany)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Gonioteuthis quadrata quadrata and Gonioteuthis quadrata gracilis zones

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, bioturbated, gray marl and lithified, bioturbated, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Neumann, J.W.M. Jagt, and Ham. 2002. Rare Campanian echinoids from the Höver and Misburg (Hannover area, Lower Saxony, Germany). Mitteilungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 5:121-139 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31992: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 30.05.2003, edited by Sabine Nürnberg, Evangelos Vlachos, Philip Mannion and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Conulus matesovi sea urchin
 Holectypoida -
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Cardiotaxis heberti, "Echinocorys ex gr. conica" = Echinocorys, "Echinocorys gibba" = Echinocorys, "Echinocorys subglobosa" = Echinocorys, "Galeola senonensis" = Echinocorys, "Galeola papillosa" = Echinocorys, Hagenowia blackmorei, Offaster pilula, Offaster aff. pomeli
"Echinocorys ex gr. conica" = Echinocorys sea urchin
"Echinocorys gibba" = Echinocorys sea urchin
"Echinocorys subglobosa" = Echinocorys sea urchin
"Galeola senonensis" = Echinocorys sea urchin
"Galeola papillosa" = Echinocorys sea urchin
listed as Galeola papillosa papillosa
Offaster pilula sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
 Spatangoida -
Peroniaster cotteaui Gauthier 1887 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster glyphus Schluter 1869 heart urchin
Micraster schroederi Stolley 1892 heart urchin
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
? Hainosaurus sp.1 Dollo 1885 mosasaur
GZG.V.20324, lateral tooth crown, juvenile
Clidastes sp.1 Cope 1868 mosasaur
Left humerus (NLMH 102.171, cast GZG.V.20235)
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
"Allopleuron cf. hofmanni" = Allopleuron hoffmanni2
"Allopleuron cf. hofmanni" = Allopleuron hoffmanni2 Gray 1831 sea turtle
limb bones
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Paratriakis decheni4 von der Marck 1863 hound shark
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Hemiscyllium sp.4 Smith 1837 carpet shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata4
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata4 Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Hexanchus ? gracilis4 Davis 1887 sixgill shark
 Squaliformes - Somniosidae
Centroscymnus praecursor4 Muller and Schollmann 1989 sleeper shark
 Squaliformes - Squalidae
? Squalus vondermarcki4 Müller and Schöllmann 1989 dogfish shark
 Squaliformes - Centrophoridae
? Deania sp.4 Jordan and Snyder 1902 gulper shark
 Squaliformes - Etmopteridae
Eoetmopterus supracretaceus4 Müller and Schöllmann 1989 shark
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida -