Maastricht (Regout collection) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnitella junior other zone, Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Lower Meerssen Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Regout

• Repository: Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins, R. H. B. Fraaye, and W.M. Jagt. 1995. Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40(2):165-210 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138770: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 27.01.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paragalatheidae
Paragalathea ubaghsi Pelseneer 1886 decapod