Heure-le-Romain (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.7° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 6.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gulpen Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Lower Gulpen Chalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: chalk

• lithology described as a chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN)

Primary reference: J. F. Geys. 1980. Phymosomatoid echinoids from the Campanian and the Maastrichtian of Belgium and the Netherlands. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 54:199-224 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3910: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 11.08.1999, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Typocidaris ubaghsi n. sp.1
Typocidaris ubaghsi n. sp.1 Geys 1987 pencil urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
"Phymosoma granulosum" = Rachiosoma corollare, ? Gauthieria mosae n. sp., ? Gauthieria spatulifera
"Phymosoma granulosum" = Rachiosoma corollare Leske 1778 sea urchin
? Gauthieria mosae n. sp. Geys 1980 sea urchin
? Gauthieria spatulifera Forbes 1850 sea urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
"Salenidia heberti" = Salenia heberti2
"Salenidia heberti" = Salenia heberti2 Cotteau 1861 sea urchin
1Geys 1987; 2Geys and Jagt 1986