Harmignies (Craie d'Obourg, IRSNB collection) (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnitella mucronata other zone, Craie d'Obourg Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, hardground, gray chalk

• high energy environment based on hardground and allochtonous materials (small rocks, limestone, quartz pebbles)
• greyish chalk. Hardgrounds present.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique

Primary reference: E. Simon and E. F. Owen. 2001. A first step in the revision of the genus Cretirhynchia Pettitt, 1950. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 71:53-118 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170121: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Cretirhynchia (Harmignirhynchia) obourgensis
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Woodwardirhynchia woodwardi
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Cretirhynchia (Homaletarhynchia) lentiformis