Echinoderms, Gronsveld, Maastricht, Enci-Maastricht: Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Maastrichtian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Pennatulacea
Graphularia sp.
Leloux 1999
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia sp. Milne-Edwards 1849
Leloux 1999
Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Applinocrinus cretaceus (Bather 1924)
Jagt 1999
Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Roveacrinidae
Birgelenocrinus degraafi Jagt 1999
Jagt 1999
Crinoidea - Comatulida - Jaekelometridae
? Jaekelometra defectiva Jagt 1999
Jagt 1999
Crinoidea - Comatulida - Pterocomidae
Placometra ex gr. laticirra (Carpenter 1880)
Jagt 1999
Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Dunnicrinus aequalis (D'Orbigny 1841)
Jagt 1999
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Temnocidaris sp. Cotteau 1863
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata (Schluter 1883)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia bonissenti Cotteau 1866
Jagt 2000
recombined as Salenidia bonissenti
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Oolopygus pyriformis
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Nucleopygus coravium
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida
Procassidulus lapiscancri Leske 1778
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida
Leymeriaster maestrichtensis
Jagt 2000
Leymeriaster eluvialis van der Ham 1995
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Diplodetus parvistella
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster ex gr. aquisgranensis
Jagt 2000
Hemiaster prunella (Lamarck 1816)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Cardiaster ex gr. granulosus (Goldfuss 1826)
Jagt 2000
Hemipneustes striatoradiatus (Leske 1778)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
? Trochalosoma corneti
Jagt 2000
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Sphaerasteridae
Valettaster ex gr. ocellatus (Forbes 1848)
Jagt 2000
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841
Jagt 2000
5 species of indeterminated goniasterids
Metopaster ex gr. tumidus Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Chomataster acules Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Stauranderasteridae
? Aspidaster aff. senonensis (Valette 1902)
Jagt 2000
recombined as Manfredaster senonensis
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Benthopectinidae
Cheiraster ? sp. Studer 1883
Blake and Jagt 2005 1 specimen
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropectinidae indet. Gray 1840
Jagt 2000
Lophidiaster pygmaeus Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiotrichidae
? Ophiothrix bongaertsi Kutscher and Jagt 2000
few arm fragments and many dissociated ossicles
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
? Ophiacantha danica Rasmussen 1951
an individual, few fragmentary arms and numerous lateral arm plates
Ophiuroidea - Euryalida - Euryalidae
? Trichaster ornatus (Rasmussen 1950)
numerous vertebrae
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
? Ophiomusium granulosum (Roemer 1841)
many thousands of disc and arm ossicles
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Ophiotitanos serrata (Roemer 1841)
original and current combination Ophiura serrata
few arm fragments
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiopyrgidae
? Stegophiura hagenowi (Rasmussen 1950)
numerous arm fragments
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands County:Maastricht
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.2° North, 4.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:63 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 Tertiary
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maastricht Member:Valkenburg, Gronsveld
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Poorly indurated white yellowish to yellowish-grey, fine to coarse-grained chalks. Small flint nodules
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32162
Authorizer:L. Villier, W. Kiessling Enterer:L. Villier, U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-07 07:31:54 Last modified:2015-01-12 03:30:24
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-07 07:31:54
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:

26192 D. B. Blake and J.W.M. Jagt. 2005. New latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleogene asteroids (Echinodermata) from the Netherlands and Denmark and their palaebiological significance. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 75:183-200 [L. Villier/L. Villier]
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]
28710 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]