CBR-Romontbos quarry (Eben Emael), directly above Lava Horizon (Cretaceous of Belgium)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
NHMM K 1904, a heavily abraded caudal vertebra (Fig. 2)