Where: Netherlands (50.8° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Zeven Wegen Chalk Member (Gulpen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Zeven wegen Chalk, the lowermost member of the Gulpen Fm, and is overlain by the Beutenaken Chalk. The Terstraeten Sand of the upper Vaals Formation underlies the unit. AGE: Latest Campanian, on the basis of ammonite and belemnite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is a composite of the entire member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Multople collectors. REPOSITORY: Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum, Maastricht (NHM), Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (MNB)

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1986. The Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite sequence in the environs of Maastricht (Limburg, the Netherlands), Limburg and Liége provinces (Belgium). Newsletters in Stratigraphy 16(3):149-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82409: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.07.2008

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