Vijlen, Cottessen [Vaals Fm] (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (50.8° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hoplitoplacenticeras vari ammonoid zone, Vaals Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No specific lithological data reported in text. Possibly chalk. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Felder

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Felder. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisch Museum, Maastricht (NHM).

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1986. The ammonite fauna of the type Maastrichtian with a revision of Ammonites colligatus Binkhorst, 1861. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg.: Science de la Terre 56:151-267 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82921: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to representative, common, and biostratigraphically important ammonoids and belemnites. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
"Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti" = Hoplitoplacenticeras (Hoplitoplacenticeras) marroti
"Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti" = Hoplitoplacenticeras (Hoplitoplacenticeras) marroti Coquand 1859 ammonite