Kunrade (Van Birgelen collection) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

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

• lithology described as 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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Typocidaris serrata Desor 1858 pencil urchin