Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 3.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella obtusa other zone, Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 160 cm depth

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic chalk

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Specimens extracted by Glauber salt method.

Primary reference: E. Simon. 1998. Maastrichtian brachiopods from Ciply: palaeoecological and stratigraphical significance. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 68:181-232 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170056: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2015

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