Where: Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 4.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian to Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 61.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:1-179 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32160: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
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Asteroidea | |
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Goniasteridae indet.4, ? Ophryaster maastrichtensis4, Metopaster lisannae4, Metopaster miriamae4, Metopaster sp.4, Metopaster alexiae4
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Ophiuroidea | |
? Ophioscolex cretacea brittle star | |
? Ophiacantha danica Rasmussen 1951 brittle star | |
? Ophiocoma rasmusseni Hess 1960 brittle star
? Ophiocoma senonensis Valette 1914 brittle star | |
? Ophiomyxa rhipidata Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star | |
? Amphiura plana Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star
Deckersamphiura inusitata Jagt 2000 brittle star | |
? Trichaster sp. Agassiz 1836 basket star
? Trichaster ornatus Rasmussen 1950 basket star | |
? Ophiomusium lux Jagt 2000 brittle star | |
Felderophiura vanderhami Jagt 1991 brittle star
? Ophiocten yvonnae Jagt 2000 brittle star | |
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"Salenia maestrichtensis" = Salenidia maestrichtensis3
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