Where: Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maastricht Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Kunrade Chalk facies
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. Van Birgelen
• Repository: collection M. Van Birgelen
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 196989: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Typocidaris serrata Desor 1858 pencil urchin |