Echinoderms, Vijlen, Gulpen, Lixhe: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata (Schluter 1883)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys ex gr. limburgica
Jagt 2000
Cardiaster ex gr. granulosus (Goldfuss 1826)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster ex gr. aquisgranensis
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Diplodetus duponti
Jagt 2000
Diplodetus parvistella
Jagt 2000
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Lophidiaster pygmaeus Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Chomataster acules Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Recurvaster spiniger Jagt 2000
Jagt 2000
Crateraster reticulatus (Schulz and Weitschat 1981)
Jagt 2000
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiobyrsidae
? Ophiosmilax alternatus Kutscher and Jagt 2000
dissociated lateral arrm plates
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiopyrgidae
? Stegophiura hagenowi (Rasmussen 1950)
numerous arm fragments
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
? Ophiomusium granulosum (Roemer 1841)
many thousands of disc and arm ossicles
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium State/province:Liege County:Lixhe
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 4.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:53 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Maastrichtian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gulpen Member:Vijlen
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Yellowish grey, glauconitic, fine-grained chalks, with a basal glauconitic-rich portion
Environment:offshore indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32151
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:J. Millet Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-07 04:55:06 Last modified:2006-03-13 07:45:37
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-07 04:55:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8592. J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:1-179 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

16834 J. W. M. Jagt. 1999. An Overview of Late Cretaceous and Early Paleogene Echinoderm Faunas from Liège-Limburg (Belgium, The Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 69:103-118 [L. Villier/J. Millet/L. Villier]
8661 J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids. Scripta Geologica 21:181-375 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]
8664 J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 5: Asteroids. Scripta Geologica 21:377-503 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]