Where: Belgium (50.8° N, 5.6° 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: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (KBIN)
Primary reference: J. F. Geys. 1987. The genus Typocidaris (Cidaroida; Echinoidea) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Maastricht area (Belgium and the Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 57:201-215 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196877: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Typocidaris sceptrifera Mantell 1822 pencil urchin
Temnocidaris baylei Cotteau 1863 pencil urchin |