Echinoderms, Lixhe, Gulpen, Lixhe (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Liege, Belgium (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 4.5° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lixhe 1-3 Member (Gulpen Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified wackestone

• White, fine-grained chalks with irregular dark blue-grey to black flint nodules

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 4: Echinoids. Scripta Geologica 21:181-375 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32173: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.06.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys ex gr. conoidea