Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nekum Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified packstone
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 32168: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Felderophiura vanderhami Jagt 1991 brittle star numerous discs, arms and thousands dissociated ossicles
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Ophiomusium lux Jagt 2000 brittle star several dozens of discs, many fragments and dissociated radial shields and lateral arm plates
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