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-4
• 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 85272: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause and Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Columnastraea fallax" = Columactinastraea fallax, Columactinastraea anthonii n. sp.4, Actinastrea faujasi, Actinastrea geminata1
"Columnastraea fallax" = Columactinastraea fallax Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
Actinastrea faujasi stony coral | |
Isastrea angulosa, "Placosmilia robusta" = Peplosmilia latona, "Edwardsosmilia faujasi" = Trochosmilia faujasi
Isastrea angulosa Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Placosmilia robusta" = Peplosmilia latona Felix 1903 stony coral
"Edwardsosmilia faujasi" = Trochosmilia faujasi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Leptoria (Dictuophyllia) reticulata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Diploctenium cordatum, "Diploctenium pluma" = Diploctenium plumum
Diploctenium cordatum Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
"Diploctenium pluma" = Diploctenium plumum Goldfuss 1827 stony coral | |
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Dimorphastrea solida Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
? Fungiastraea flexuosa stony coral | |
Heterocoenia bacillaris stony coral | |
Caryophyllia bredai stony coral | |
Areopsammia alacca Morren 1828 stony coral | |
Montlivaltia angusticostata Umbgrove 1925 stony coral | |
Actinhelia elegans Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"Synastrea clathrata" = Aspidastraea clathrata
"Synastrea clathrata" = Aspidastraea clathrata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"Montastrea maxima" = Baryphyllia maxima
"Montastrea maxima" = Baryphyllia maxima Umbgrove 1925 stony coral | |
"Synastrea escharoides" = Morphastrea escharoides
"Synastrea escharoides" = Morphastrea escharoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Synastrea geometrica Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"? Fungiastraea velamentosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa, "Meandrophyllia gyrosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa, "? Fungiastraea textilis" = Meandrophyllia textilis, "Montastrea arachnoides" = Pleurocora arachnoides
"? Fungiastraea velamentosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Meandrophyllia gyrosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"? Fungiastraea textilis" = Meandrophyllia textilis Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Montastrea arachnoides" = Pleurocora arachnoides Knorr and Walch 1777 stony coral | |
""Montastrea" franqana" = Montastraea2
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Moltkia minuta Nielsen 1918 gorgonian | |
Graphularia sp. sea pen |