Ankerpoort-Marnebel quarry, Eben-Emael (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Liège, Belgium (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastricht Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• cannot tell which member because element picked off a conveyer belt in quarry, but cannot be Valkenburg Chalk b/c layer not mined (either Emael or Nekum Mbr.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage,

• element picked off a conveyer belt in quarry

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, A. W. F. Meijer, P. Taquet and G. Wouters. 1985. New remains of hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia, Ornithischia) from the Maastrichtian of Dutch and Belgian Limburg. Revue de Paléobiologie 4(1):65-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48877: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
ulna, Garcet collection