The
Obernkirchen Sandstein is a geological formation in Lower Saxony, Germany whose strata date back to the
Early CretaceousThe Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...
. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Vertebrate paleofauna
| Ornithischians of the Obernkirchen Sandstein |
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Infraorder:
- Ankylosauria
Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the order Ornithischia. It includes the great majority of dinosaurs with armor in the form of bony osteoderms. Ankylosaurs were bulky quadrupeds, with short, powerful limbs. They are first known to have appeared in the early Jurassic Period of...
- Tracks.
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Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany. |
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Genus:
- Tracks.
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Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany. |
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Genus:
- Iguanodon
Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...
- Iguanodon sp.
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Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany. |
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Order:
- ?Ornithischia
Ornithischia or Predentata is an extinct order of beaked, herbivorous dinosaurs. The name ornithischia is derived from the Greek ornitheos meaning 'of a bird' and ischion meaning 'hip joint'...
- Possible ornithischian tracks.
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Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany. |
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Genus:
- Stenopelix
Stenopelix is a genus of small ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Germany. It was perhaps a basal ceratopsian from the Barremian Stage of the Cretaceous period, sometime between 130 and 125 million years ago...
- S. valdensis.
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Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany. |
"Partial skeleton, no skull." |
Suborder:
- Theropoda
Theropoda is both a suborder of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs, and a clade consisting of that suborder and its descendants . Dinosaurs belonging to the suborder theropoda were primarily carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory, omnivory, and insectivory...
- Indeterminate remains.
- Tracks.
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Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany.
Geographically located in Niedersachsen, Germany. |
"(= MegalosaurusMegalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...
dunkeri)" |
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