Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maastricht Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. de Heer in 27, 1961
Collection methods: quarrying,
• MND, Museum Natura Docet
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 143254: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur Anterior cervical vertebrae MND K 20.01.801a, b; KB 50.20.01
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