Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.2° N, 13.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Collected at the limit between the phosphatic chalk and the hardground. Includes specimens with this description but lacking a sample number.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, 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 170115: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.06.2015
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Argyrotheca cf. coniuncta Steinich 1965 | |
Trigonosemus elegans Koenig 1825
Ruegenella ciplyensis Owen 1977 |