Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed IVf-1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Leloux. 1999. Numerical distribution of Santonian to Danian corals (Scleractinia, Octocorallia) of southern Limburg, the Netherlands. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:191-195 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 85268: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Edwardsosmilia faujasi" = Trochosmilia faujasi
"Edwardsosmilia faujasi" = Trochosmilia faujasi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Diploctenium cordatum Goldfuss 1827 stony coral | |
"Montastrea rotula" = Paraplacocoenia rotula
"Montastrea rotula" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"Cyclolites cancellata" = Cunnolites cancellata
"Cyclolites cancellata" = Cunnolites cancellata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
? Fungiastraea flexuosa stony coral | |
Micrabacia sp. Milne-Edwards 1849 stony coral | |
"? Fungiastraea textilis" = Meandrophyllia textilis
"? Fungiastraea textilis" = Meandrophyllia textilis Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Actinhelia elegans Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Areopsammia alacca Morren 1828 stony coral | |
Moltkia minuta Nielsen 1918 gorgonian |