Where: Liège, Belgium (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Emael Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Directly above the Lava Horizon (Emael Member, Maastricht Formation)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• NHMM, Naturhistorisch Museum Maastricht
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143253: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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