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-2
• 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 85270: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea faujasi stony coral | |
"Montastrea arachnoides" = Pleurocora arachnoides
"Montastrea arachnoides" = Pleurocora arachnoides Knorr and Walch 1777 stony coral | |
"Synastrea clathrata" = Aspidastraea clathrata
"Synastrea clathrata" = Aspidastraea clathrata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Areopsammia alacca Morren 1828 stony coral | |
"? Fungiastrea flexuosa" = Fungiastraea
"? Fungiastrea flexuosa" = Fungiastraea stony coral |