The Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian) Bückeberg Formation in the southern Lower Saxony Basin, to Annette Richter, Mike Reich (Eds.) the west and to the south of Hannover, yields abundant and diverse dinosaur tracks, known since the late 1870s. After a few decades of pioneering and discovery, this area was scientifi cally neglected for a long time concerning dinosaur tracks and tracksites, and only single sporadic fi nds were reported in the second half of the 20th century. During 2007 and 2008, a new tracksite was discovered in Dinosaur Tracks 2011 Obernkirchen, yielding an astonishing amount of new and well-preserved dinosaur tracks, cared for by the Hannover State Museum and its cooperational partners. The present volume contains the An International Symposium, abstracts of lectures and posters presented during the Dinosaur Track Symposium 2011 as well as Obernkirchen, April 14-17, 2011 excursion and collection guides. On behalf of the Schaumburger Landschaft, this symposium was held at the medieval Stift Obernkirchen, Germany, from April 14th to 17th, 2011. Nearly one hundred Abstract Volume and Field Guide to Excursions palaeontologists, biologists, geologists and other scientists from sixteen countries participated. Annette Richter, Mike Reich (Eds.) Dinosaur Tracks 2011 JoacAnAnn ISBN: 978-3-86395-105-4 Universitätsdrucke Göttingen Universitätsdrucke Göttingen Annette Richter and Mike Reich (Eds.) Dinosaur tracks 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License 3.0 “by-nd”, allowing you to download, distribute and print the document in a few copies for private or educational use, given that the document stays unchanged and the creator is mentioned. You are not allowed to sell copies of the free version. erschienen in der Reihe der Universitätsdrucke im Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2012 Annette Richter and Mike Reich (Eds.) With the collaboration of Annina Böhme, Jahn J. Hornung, Tom R. Hübner, Tanja R. Stegemann Dinosaur tracks 2011 An International Symposium, Obernkirchen, April 14-17, 2011 Abstract Volume and Field Guide to Excursions Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2012 Bibliographische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliographie; detaillierte bibliographische Daten sind im Internet über <http://dnb.ddb.de> abrufbar. Editorial contact Dr Annette Richter Annina Böhme Dr Tom R. Hübner Hannover State Museum Willy-Brandt-Allee 5 30169 Hannover, Germany http://www.landesmuseum-hannover.de Dr Mike Reich Jahn J. Hornung Tanja R. Stegemann Geoscience Centre of the Georg-August University of Göttingen Goldschmidtstraße 1-5 37077 Göttingen, Germany http://www.geomuseum.uni-goettingen.de http://www.geobiologie.uni-goettingen.de This work is protected by German Intellectual Property Right Law. 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Graphics and Layout: Mike Reich Cover Design: Conny Hundertmark & Mike Reich Cover Photos: Geoscience Museum Göttingen, Hannover State Museum, Tobias Landmann © 2012 Universitätsverlag Göttingen http://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de ISBN: 978-3-86395-105-4 7th European Conference on Echinoderms, Göttingen, October 2-9, 2010 Preface Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................ 7 Words of Welcome .................................................................................................... 9 Photographic Impressions ................................................................................. 11 Part I: Abstracts of Oral & Poster Presentations [in alphabetical order] ............................................................................................... 13 Part II: Excursion Guides & Classic ‘German Wealden’ Localities and Collections Hornung, J. J.; Böhme, A. & Reich, M.: Excursion Guides A-C: The ‘German Wealden’ and the Obernkirchen Sandstone – an Introduction ...................... 62 Richter, A.; Hornung, J. J.; Böhme, A. & Stratmann, U.: Excursion Guide A1: Obernkirchen Sandstone Quarries – A Natural Workstone Lagerstaette and a Dinosaur Tracksite .......................................................................................... 73 Hornung, J. J.; Böhme, A. & Reich, M.: Excursion Guide A2: Harrl hill near Bückeburg ........................................................................................................ 101 Wings, O.; Falk, D.; Knötschke, N. & Richter, A.: Excursion Guide B1: The Early Cretaceous Dinosaur Trackways in Münchehagen (Lower Saxony, Germany) – The Natural Monument ‚Saurierfährten Münchehagen‘ and the adjacent Wesling Quarry ................................................................................................................... 113 Hornung, J. J.; Böhme, A. & Reich, M.: Excursion Guide B2: Wölpinghausen ....................................................................................................... 143 Böhme, A.; Reich, M.; Hornung, J. J. & Karl, H.-V.: Excursion Guide C1: Northern ‘German Wealden’ – the collection of the Göttingen University .................. 151 Hornung, J. J. & Reich, M.: Excursion Guide C2: Dinosaur tracks from the Berriasian Obernkirchen Sandstone on exhibit at the Göttingen University Geopark .............................................................................................................. 169 5 The printing of this volume was funded by: 6 7th European Conference on Echinoderms, Göttingen, October 2-9, 2010 Preface Preface On behalf of the “Schaumburger Landschaft” and the “Niedersächsisches Landes- museum Hannover”, we gave a very warm welcome to almost 100 participants in our Dinosaur Track Symposium Obernkirchen 2011 on April 14th. The conference took place at the historical Protestant monastery in Obernkirchen and, therefore, we are deeply grateful to Abbess Wöbbeking, the landlady, for her hospitality and patience while accommodating the symposium for four central days and quite a few more during the preparatory work: Some parts of the monastery are more than 800 years old. Of course, 800 years may mean almost nothing to palaeontologists, compared to the millions of years that were dealt with during this symposium. Nevertheless, all our guests were pleased to be, and enjoyed their stay, in this charming old building. When the spectacular new dinosaur track finds occurred at Obernkirchen, the idea to organize an international symposium came up immediately. The “Schaumburger Landschaft”, which is a foundation dedicated to the support of culture in our region, quickly decided to initiate a project in support of the museum which was the scientific partner in raising funds for the meeting. For the Schaumburger Landschaft, it is an honour to have hosted this event just after the completion of the first steps of field documentation. Arriving from all over the world, the conference members brought international renown and sparkle to the symposium and the region of Schaumburg during these exciting days. Therefore, we would like to thank all the attendees for the interest they have expressed, and especially those who travelled thousands of miles in order to make a personal contribution to the success of our event. We are sure that all of the participants returned home from this conference with a vast amount of new experience and knowledge. A symposium requires a great deal of preparation as well as a perfect organization. It also costs quite a lot of money. Therefore, on behalf of both the “Schaumburger Landschaft” and the “Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover”, we would like to thank our sponsors: the “Stiftung Niedersachsen”, the foundation of Lower Saxony, represented by Secretary General Joachim Werren, the “Sparkassenstiftung Schaumburg”, our regional bank, represented by Director Rolf Watermann and the “Klosterkammer Hannover”, a foundation responsible among others for the monasteries of Lower Saxony. Aside from the very important financial promotion, it is obvious that without the permanent support of the “Obernkirchener Sandsteinbrüche GmbH” (Obern- kirchen Sandstone Quarries) and especially their owner, Mr Klaus Köster, we would have had no knowledge of the new tracks. Moreover, there would not have been a symposium at all. 7 Preface Dinosaur Tracks 2011 – Obernkirchen, April 14-17, 2011 We would also like to express our gratitude for all their fantastic support to the cooperational partners of the museum: the Geoscience Museum as well as the Department of Geobiology of the University of Göttingen and the “Dinosaurier- freilichtmuseum Münchehagen/Dinopark”. Even though the symposium was to be a specialists’ conference, we had decided to invite the general public to Obernkirchen on the first evening. Taking account of the fact g that dinosaurs are a highly interesting topic not only for children but also for a number of adults, we added Professor Dr Haubold's public lecture to the programme on the first evening. Since a symposium must not only consist of professional work and discussions, we carried out a spectacular illumination of the quarry of Obernkirchen on the second evening of the symposium. On the third and fourth