Barkhausen tracksite (Unit 10): Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Germany
collected by M. Ballerstedt; C. Meyer, M. Lockley 1921, 1998–1999, 2020
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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= Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Meyer et al. 2021 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Germany | State/province: | Niedersachsen |
| Coordinates: | 52.3° North, 8.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 16.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Barkhausen | Local bed: | 10.25 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "middle part of the Lower Kimmeridgian" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks,current ripples argillaceous,calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "fine-grained sandstone, with calcareo-argillaceous debris and ripple marks." | |
| Environment: | paralic indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | M. Ballerstedt; C. Meyer, M. Lockley | Collection dates: | 1921, 1998–1999, 2020 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 121155 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-11-29 10:29:27 | Last modified: | 2022-09-27 14:19:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-11-29 10:29:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38671. | M. Kaever and A. F. d. Lapparent. 1974. Les traces de pas de Dinosaures du Jurassique de Barkhausen (Basse Saxe, Allemagne) [Dinosaur footprints from the Jurassic of Barkhausen (Lower Saxony, Germany)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 7e série 16(5):516-525 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 60696 | C. Diedrich. 2011. Upper Jurassic tidal flat megatracksites of Germany—coastal dinosaur migration highways between European islands, and a review of the dinosaur footprints. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 91:129-155 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78151 | H. Friese. 1972. Die Dinosaurierfährten von Barkhausen im Wiehengebirge [The dinosaur tracks from Barkhausen in the Wiehen Mountains]. Wittlager Heimathefte 5:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78152 | H. Friese. 1979. Die Dinosaurierfährten von Barkhausen im Wiehengebirge [The dinosaur tracks from Barkhausen in the Wiehen Mountains]. Veröffentlichungen des Landkreises Osnabrück 1:1-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78131 | C. A. Meyer, M. Belvedere, B. Englich and M. G. Lockley. 2021. A reevaluation of the Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksite Barkhausen (Wiehengebirge, Northern Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 95(3):537-558 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 82714 | R. Windolf. 2000. Dinosaur sites from the Upper Jurassic of northern Germany. In S. Sachs & R. Windolf (ed.), First Symposium on European Dinosaurs. Programme and Abstracts 26-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |