Münchehagen tracksite: Late/Upper Berriasian, Germany
collected 1979–1981

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Rotundichnus muenchehagensis n. gen., n. sp. Hendricks 1981
8 individuals
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
cf. Iguanodontipus sp. Sarjeant et al. 1998
Lockley et al. 2004 1 individual
Reptilia
? Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Hornung et al. 2012
swimming track
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Niedersachsen
Coordinates: 52.4° North, 9.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.6° North, 17.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Berriasian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Berriasian Other zone: Cypridea alta formosa
Age range of interval:140.60000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bückeberg Member:Obernkirchen
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Wealden 3", "Hauptsandstein"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
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
Collection dates:1979–1981
Metadata
Also known as:Munchehagen, Dinosaurier-Park Münchehagen
Database number:125405
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-03-09 08:48:40 Last modified:2022-09-27 14:25:45
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-09 08:48:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62948. A. Hendricks. 1981. Die Saurierfährte von Münchehagen bei Rehburg-Loccum (NW-Deutschland) [The dinosaur tracks of Münchehagen in Rehburg-Loccum (NW Germany)]. Abhandlungen aus dem Landesmuseum für Naturkunde zu Münster in Westfalen 43(2):3-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

69025 L. Alcalá, M. G. Lockley, A. Cobos, L. Mampel, and R. Royo-Torres. 2016. Evaluating the dinosaur track record: an integrative approach to understanding the regional and global distribution, scientific importance, preservation, and management of tracksites. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 100-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78041 C. Diedrich. 2004. New important iguanodontid and theropod trackways of the tracksite Obernkirchen in the Berriasian of NW Germany and megatracksite concept of central Europe. Ichnos 11(3-4):215-228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
82180 J. O. Farlow. 1992. Sauropod tracks and trackmakers: integrating the ichnological and skeletal records. Zubía 10:89-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68163 R. Fischer. 1998. Die Saurierfährten im Naturdenkmal Münchehagen [The dinosaur footprints in Münchehagen National Monument]. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologischen Institut der Universität Hannover 37:3-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56191 J. J. Hornung, A. Böhme, T. Lubbe, M. Reich, and A. Richter. 2012. Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany—their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86(3):231-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54567 M. G. Lockley and J. L. Wright. 2001. Trackways of large quadrupedal ornithopods from the Cretaceous: a review. In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: New Research Inspired by the Paleontology of Philip J. Currie 428-442 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78428 M. G. Lockley, J. L. Wright, and D. Thies. 2004. Some observations on the dinosaur tracks at Münchehagen (Lower Cretaceous), Germany. Ichnos 11(3-4):261-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76343 C. A. Meyer, D. Marty, and M. Belvedere. 2018. Titanosaur trackways from the Late Cretaceous El Molino Formation of Bolivia (Cal Orck’o, Sucre). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 88:223-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
40716 U. Richter, A. Richter, and J. Lehmann. 2007. Fährtensucher auf der Dinospur in den Rehburger Bergen [Track-seekers on the dinosaur trail in the Rehburg Mountains]. Fossilien 24:11-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55488 M. Romano, M. A. Whyte, and S. J. Jackson. 2007. Trackway ratio: A new look at trackway gauge in the analysis of quadrupedal dinosaur trackways and its implications for ichnotaxonomy. Ichnos 14(3–4):257-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33897ETE R. Windolf. 1998. Dinosaurierfunde in Niedersachsen [Dinosaur finds in Lower Saxony]. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 26:1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82715 R. Windolf. 2000. Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs from northern Germany: bones and footprints and the "Dinosaur-Open-Air-Museum Münchhagen". In S. Sachs & R. Windolf (ed.), First Symposium on European Dinosaurs. Programme and Abstracts 28-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14525ETE O. Wings, A. Broschinski, and N. Knotschke. 2005. New theropod and ornithopod dinosaur trackways from the Berriasian of Münchehagen (Lower Saxony, Germany). Current Research in Vertebrate Palaeontolgy. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Kaupia 14:105 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
69023 O. Wings, J. N. Lallensack, and H. Mallison. 2016. The Early Cretaceous dinosaur trackways in Münchehagen (Lower Saxony, Germany): 3-D photogrammetry as basis for geometric morphometric analysis of shape variation and evaluation of material loss during excavation. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 56-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]