Kunrade area (IRScNB Ubaghs collection): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Netherlands
collected by C. Ubaghs

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Allopleuron hoffmani
1 specimen
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Megalosaurus bucklandi (Mantell 1827)
1 specimen
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1991
    = Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852
Jagt et al. 2003
Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mantell 1829)
Lingham-Soliar 1995 1 specimen
original and current combination Mosasaurus hoffmannii
IRSNB 1626
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Weishampel et al. 1999 1 specimen
tooth, IRSNB
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Mulder et al. 2000 1 specimen
NHMM 003842 (plate 1, figs 4-5): an elasmosaur tooth in the collections of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht identified as "G. binkhorsti"
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Almerarhynchia kunradensis n. sp. Simon 2003
Simon 2003
(2 measurements)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca geulemensis Vogel 1895
Leloux 2002
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
"Limopsis" kunraediensis Vogel 1895
Leloux 2002
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae
Anatina millepunctata Vogel 1895
Leloux 2002
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Ctenochelidae
Ischnodactylus inaequidens n. sp. Pelseneer 1886
Pelseneer 1886
recombined as Ctenocheles inaequidens
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Diogenidae
Paguroidea indet. Latreille 1802
Jagt et al. 2006
IRScNB MI 11053 (Ubaghs IG 6521 in Jagt et al., 2006)
    = Annuntidiogenes sunuciorum n. sp. Fraaije et al. 2008
Fraaije et al. 2008
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Nephropidae
"Nephrops" sulcirostris (Bell 1863)
Pelseneer 1886
synonym of Astacus longimanus
Unlikely ID
Jagtia kunradensis Tshudy and Sorhannus 2000
Tshudy and Sorhannus 2000
IRScNB specimen from the "Kunrade Limestone facies" at "Kunrade": might include holotype
unclassified
Debeya serrata Miquel 1853
Leloux 2002
Pinopsida - Pinales - Taxaceae
Pinites patens
Leloux 2002
Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Culmites cretaceus
Leloux 2002
unclassified
Cycadopsis cryptomerioides
Leloux 2002
Thalassotaenia debeyi van der Ham et al. 2007
van der Ham et al. 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands State/province:Limburg
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 5.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 4.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Belemnella junior
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kunrade
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: = Kunrade limestone facies of Maastricht Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: lithified based on preservation of crabs
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:C. Ubaghs
Collection method comments: Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRScNB)
Metadata
Also known as:Kunraed
Database number:67133
Authorizer:M. Carrano, M. Uhen, R. Benson, A. Dunhill, W. Kiessling, M. Clapham, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy, B. Allen, R. Benson, M. Clapham, M. Krause, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2006-11-09 13:01:11 Last modified:2019-02-13 12:40:41
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-09 13:01:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
47357. C. Ubaghs. 1892. Le Megalosaurus dans la Craie supérieure du Limbourg [Megalosaurus in the upper Chalk of Limburg]. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie, de Paléontologie, et d'Hydrologie 6:26-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19147ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosaurids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An overview. Natura Nascosta 32:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41040decapod R. H. B. Fraaije, B. W. M. van Bakel, J. W. M. Jagt and P. Artal. 2008. New decapod crustaceans (Anomura, Brachyura) from mid-Cretaceous reefal deposits at Monte Orobe (Navarra, northern Spain), and comments on related type-Maastrichtian material. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre 78:193-208 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]
41054decapod J. Jagt, B. W. M. van Bakel, R. H. B. Fraaije and C. Neumann. 2006. In situ fossil hermit crabs (Paguroidea) from northwest Europe and Russia. Preliminary data on new records. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 23(3):364-369 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]
43445 J. W. M. Jagt, E. W. A. Mulder, A. S. Schulp, R. W. Dortangs, and R. H. B. Fraaije. 2003. Dinosaurs from the Maastrichtian-type area (southeastern Netherlands, northeastern Belgium). Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:67-76 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7842 J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1991. Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., dinosaure théropode du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., a theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 25(5):585-594 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
53991 J. Leloux. 2002. Type specimens of Maastrichtian fossils in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
67818 T. Lingham-Soliar. 1995. Anatomy and Functional Morphology of the Largest Marine Reptile Known, Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mosasauridae, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous, Upper Maastrichtian of the Netherlands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 347(1320):155-180 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
46426 E. W. A. Mulder, N. Bardet, P. Godefroit and J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Elasmosaur remains from the Maastrichtian type area, and a review of latest Cretaceous elasmosaurs (Reptilia, Plesiosauroidea). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturalles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 70:161-178 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]
47564decapod P. Pelseneer. 1886. Notice sur les Crustacés décapodes du Maastrichtien du Limbourg. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 4(3):161-175 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]
55507 E. Simon. 2003. A new Late Maastrichtian rhynchonellide brachiopod from the Kunrade Limestone facies near Maastricht (southern Limburg, The Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 73:137-148 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
30245 D. Tshudy and U. Sorhannus. 2000. Jagtia kunradensis, a new genus and species of clawed lobster (Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian) Maastricht Formation, the Netherlands. Journal of Paleontology 74(2):224-229 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
39406 R. W. J. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, and L. Inderherberge. 2007. Seagrass foliage from the Maastrichtian type area (Maastrichtian, Danian, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 144(3-4):301-321 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
29704ETE D. B. Weishampel, E. W. A. Mulder, R. W. Dortange, J. W. M. Jagt, C.-M. Jianu, M. M. M. Kuypers, H. H. G. Peeters and A. S. Schulp. 1999. Dinosaur remains from the type Maastrichtian: an update. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78(3-4):357-365 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]