Van Damme quarry, Ciply (hardground) (Cretaceous of Belgium)

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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic chalk

• Indurated phosphatic chalk

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by E. Simon

• Repository: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique

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 170078: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Cyclothyris elegans" = Septatoechia elegans
"Cyclothyris elegans" = Septatoechia elegans Von Hanstein 1879