<p><strong>Rare Late Cretaceous phymosomatoid echinoids from the Hannover area (Lower Saxony, Germany)*</strong></p>

NILS SCHLÜTER; FRANK WIESE; HELMUT FAUSTMANN; PETER GIROD

doi:10.11646/zoosymposia.7.1.25

Issue: Vol. 7: 12 December 2012

Type: Article

Published: 2012-12-12

DOI: 10.11646/zoosymposia.7.1.25

Page range: 267–278

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Rare Late Cretaceous phymosomatoid echinoids from the Hannover area (Lower Saxony, Germany)*

NILS SCHLÜTER⁺⁻
FRANK WIESE⁺⁻
HELMUT FAUSTMANN⁺⁻
PETER GIROD⁺⁻

Georg-August University of Göttingen, Geoscience Centre, Museum, Collections & Geopark, Göttingen, Germany

Georg-August University of Göttingen, Courant Research Centre Geobiology, Göttingen, Germany

Berlin, Germany

Echinoidea Phymosomatidae Cretaceous Campanian palaeogeography

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Abstract

Gauthieria mosae is recorded for the first time from upper Campanian (Belemnitella minor/Nostoceras polyplocum Zone) strata at the Teutonia Nord quarry in the Hannover area (northwest Germany), with two specimens available. This species was previously known only from the lower upper Campanian (basiplana/spiniger Zone and higher) of the province of Liège, northeast Belgium. In addition, a specimen of Gauthieria aff. pseudoradiata, from the B. minor/N. polyplocum Zone as well at the Teutonia Nord quarry, is illustrated and discussed in an attempt to elucidate the confused taxonomy of this form.