Ankerpoort-'t Rooth, NEKAMI Quarry, Meerssen Member (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
Anterior cervical vertebrae MND K 20.01.801a, b; KB 50.20.01