Where: Liege, Belgium (50.7° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 4.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vijlen Member (Gulpen Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, glauconitic wackestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:1-179 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32148: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.06.2003, edited by Josh Mordaunt
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ophiuroidea | |
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? Amphiura plana Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star several dozens of vertebrae and lateral arm plates
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? Ophiocoma senonensis Valette 1914 brittle star few arm fragments and numerous lateral, dorsal and ventral arm plates
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? Stegophiura trispinosa Jagt 2000 brittle star few dissociated lateral arm plates and radial shields
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Actinopteri | |
Dercetis triqueter4 Pictet 1850 |