Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnella sumensis other zone, Vijlen Member (Gulpen Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Some material may have come from underlying Belemnella obtusa zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, glauconitic chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W.M. Felder
• Repository: Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastrich (NHMM)
Primary reference: E. Simon. 2005. New Lower Maastrichtian brachiopods (Gulpen Formation, Vijlen Member) from southern Limburg (The Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 75:127-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 170088: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.06.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Mosaethyris felderi Simon 2005 | |
Maastrichtiella costellata Simon 2005 | |
Kingena limburgica n. sp.
Kingena limburgica n. sp. Simon 2005 | |
Nerthebrochus ovalis n. sp.
Nerthebrochus ovalis n. sp. Simon 2005 | |
Woodwardirhynchia pseudonorvicensis Simon 2005 | |
Cretirhynchia (Homaletarhynchia) postarcuata Simon 2005 |