Schwienheer quarry

The abandoned Schwienheer quarry , also known as “Dicke Busch” or “Klippkuhle”, is located near the Mittelland Canal northwest of the Uffeln district of the city of Ibbenbüren in the Steinfurt district .

It is the mining site of a copper shale deposit from the Permian . From 2005 to 2009 employees of the LWL Museum für Naturkunde carried out an excavation. They secured over 1,700 finds.

The finds at this site include primarily the fossils of fish, including the predatory fish Reticulolepsis exsculpta and the tank fish Menaspis armata . An almost completely preserved dinosaur skeleton of the species Protorosaurus speneri was also found .

The quarry has been a ground monument since 1993 .

See also

• List of paleontological monuments in Westphalia-Lippe

literature

• L. Schöllmann: The excavations in the copper slate near Ibbenbüren-Uffeln. In: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe , 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our story. Retrieved September 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Press information - release. Retrieved September 26, 2018 . 
3. ↑ wdmf webdesign: Ibbenbüren City Museum - cultural landscape specialist contribution to the Münsterland regional plan . Retrieved September 26, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 32.4 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 43.8"  E