St. Pietersberg (Emael Member) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Also known as ENCI-Maastricht B.V. quarry

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Emael Chalk Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Emael Chalk of the Maastricht Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

• "obtained in a boulder"

•MND, Museum Natura Docet

Primary reference: E. W. A. Mulder. 1990. Ein Elasmosaurierzahn aus der oberen Kreide des St. Pietersberges bei Maastricht, Siid-Limburg, Niederlande. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 64(1/2):145-151 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142084: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.04.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Ophiuroids, echinoids, brachipods, bivalves, bryozoans, serpulids, and decapods were listed from the matrix
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
Tooth: Niederlande. Sammlung Museum Natura Docet Denekamp (NL), Nr. K 20.01.802
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
cf. Ctenochelys sp. Zangerl 1953 turtle
An incomplete and fractured dentary (MAB13689) showing evidence of abrasion