Also known as Maschinenschacht,Schaumburg-Lippe
Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.8° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 17.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• It is an approximate equivalent to the Wealden Clay unit of the Wealden Formation of SE-England and the “Bernissartian” of SW-Belgium
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Turtle material reposited at the Geoscience Centre of the University of Göttingen, Museum
Primary reference: H.-V. Karl, J. Milan, and G. Tichy. 2012. New shell remains of Peltochelys duchastelli (Dollo, 1884) from Western Europe and the rise of trionychids (Testudines: Trionychoidea). Studia Palaeocheloniologica 4:87-106 [R. Benson/R. Benson/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138299: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 10.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dorsetochelys typocardium Seeley 1869 turtle GZG.V. 010.404, natural mould with remains of the left pleurals I-II
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