Echinoderms, Gronsveld, Maastricht, Eben Amael, Liege: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
- Cassidulidae
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Nucleopygus coravium
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Nucleopygus scrobiculatus
(Goldufss 1826)
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Nucleolitidae
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Oolopygus pyriformis
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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Goniasteridae indet.
Forbes 1841
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
| 2 species of indeterminated goniasterids | ||||||||||
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Chomataster acules
Spencer 1913
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Ophiuroidea
- Ophiurida
- Ophiosphalmidae
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? Ophiomusium granulosum
(Roemer 1841)
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| many thousands of disc and arm ossicles | ||||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Roveacrinida
- Saccocomidae
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Applinocrinus cretaceus
(Bather 1924)
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Jagt 1999 | |||||||||
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Crinoidea
- Comatulida
- Bourgueticrinidae
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Dunnicrinus aequalis
(D'Orbigny 1841)
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Jagt 1999 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Belgium | State/province: | Liege | County: | Eben Emael |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 5.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.4° North, 4.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 109 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: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Maastricht | Member: | Gronsveld, Schiepersberg |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified packstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Poorly indurated, white yellowish, fine- to coarse-grained, homogeneous chalks with numerous regular beds and randomly distributed light-grey flint nodules | |||
| Environment: | offshore ramp | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32154 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Villier | Enterer: | L. Villier |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-06-07 05:22:06 | Last modified: | 2015-01-12 03:28:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-06-07 05:22:06 |
| 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:
| 8665 | J. W. M. Jagt. 1999. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 2: Crinoids. Scripta Geologica 116:59-255 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier] | |
| 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] |