Where: Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Calcaire de Kunraed Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Calcaire de Kunraed, which unconformably overlies the Vaals Fm nd is laterally correlative to the Maastricht Fm. AGE: Early Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite and belemnite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is a composite of the entire formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone
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 82927: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2008
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