Where: Liege, Belgium (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: tegulatus/junior zone, Valkenburg, Gronsveld Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian to 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 4: Echinoids. Scripta Geologica 21:181-375 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32175: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 09.06.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Gauthieria pseudoradiata Schluter 1883 sea urchin | |
Nucleopygus coravium sea urchin
Nucleopygus scrobiculatus Goldufss 1826 sea urchin | |
Oolopygus pyriformis sea urchin | |
Cardiaster rutoti sea urchin | |
Leymeriaster eluvialis van der Ham 1995 heart urchin | |
? Trochalosoma corneti sea urchin | |
Ophiuroidea | |
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Crinoidea | |
Placometra ex gr. laticirra Carpenter 1880 Feather star | |
Dunnicrinus aequalis D'Orbigny 1841 Feather star |