Zeven Wegen, Vijlenerbosch (62D-15d) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella sumensis other zone, Vijlen Member (Gulpen Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Some material may have come from underlying Belemnella obtusa zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, glauconitic chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.M. Felder

• Repository: Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastrich (NHMM)

Primary reference: E. Simon. 2005. New Lower Maastrichtian brachiopods (Gulpen Formation, Vijlen Member) from southern Limburg (The Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 75:127-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170088: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Nerthebrochus ovalis n. sp. Simon 2005
 Terebratulida -
 Terebratulida - Mosaethyrididae
 Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Kingena limburgica n. sp. Simon 2005