St. Pietersberg (KBIN collection) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastricht Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen

Primary reference: J. F. Geys. 1979. Salenioid echinoids from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and The Netherlands. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 53:296-322 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196775: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Temnocidaris baylei3 Cotteau 1863 pencil urchin
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
"Codiopsis pierrensis n. sp." = Codiopsis bruni2, Goniopygus minor2
"Codiopsis pierrensis n. sp." = Codiopsis bruni2 Lambert 1914 sea urchin
Goniopygus minor2 Sorignet 1850 sea urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata1 Schluter 1883 sea urchin
Winkleria maastrichtensis1 Engel 1964 sea urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia anthophora Muller 1847 sea urchin
Salenidia sanctipetri n. sp. Geys 1979 sea urchin
Salenidia maestrichtensis Schluter 1892 sea urchin
 Euechinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris4 d'Archiac 1835 sea urchin