Vertebrate tracking site in Borgholzhausen

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The Borgholzhausen vertebrate tracking site is located between the northern area of ​​the Ravensberger Stadium and the Wichlinghauser Weg in Borgholzhausen , Gütersloh district , in the Teutoburg Forest .

history

The tracks were discovered in 1996 during construction work. The rocks are about 240 million years old limestone and marl stones of the shell limestone from the Triassic period . They contain at least 30 horizons with step seals and track prints of tetrapods , which were assigned to the trace fossil genera Rhynchosauroides peabodyi and Procolophonichnium haarmuehlensis . When the LWL Museum für Naturkunde was excavated in 1997, a fragmented, 2.8 by 1.7 meter slab of stone with step seals was stabilized and recovered using silicone rubber. This was exhibited in 2000 at the national archaeological exhibition.

See also

literature

  • F. Albat: Tetrapod tracks in the Lower Muschelkalk of Borgholzhausen - an excavation report. In: Geology and Paläontologie in Westfalen, 52nd year, 1999, pages 19–39

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LWL | Excavations for reptile tracks in Borgholzhausen - paleontological soil monument maintenance. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Cajus Diedrich: The vertebrate track discovery site Borgholzhausen (Teutoburg Forest, NW Germany) from the oolite zone (Lower Muschelkalk, Middle Triassic) . In: Paleontological Journal . tape 76 , no. 1 , April 2002, ISSN  0031-0220 , p. 35–56 , doi : 10.1007 / bf02988184 ( springer.com [accessed September 26, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Geology and Paleontology in Westphalia Volume 63 - PDF pp. 58–59. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 25.1 ″  E