Blom quarry, Berg en Terblijt (middle Meerssen Mb): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Netherlands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Calianassa sp.
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Echinoidea
- Phymosomatidae
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Winkleria maastrichtensis
Engel 1964
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Echinoidea
- Salenioida
- Saleniidae
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Salenia maestrichtensis
Schluter 1892
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
| recombined as Salenidia maestrichtensis | ||||||||||
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Salenia sp.
Gray 1835
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Orthopsidae
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Orthopsis miliaris
(d'Archiac 1835)
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Nucleolitidae
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Plagiochasma lammersmaxi
Jagt and Ham 2000
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Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
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Procassidulus lapiscancri
Leske 1778
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Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
- Cassidulidae
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Rhyncholampas macari
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Nucleopygus coravium
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Nucleopygus scrobiculatus
(Goldufss 1826)
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Rhynchopygus marmini
(Agassiz 1847)
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Echinoidea
- Holasteroida
- Holasteridae
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Hemipneustes striatoradiatus
(Leske 1778)
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Jagt 2000 | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Hemiasteridae
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Hemiaster prunella
(Lamarck 1816)
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Echinoidea
- Holectypoida
- Holectypidae
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Coenholectypus macrostomus
Engel 1964
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Echinoidea
- Holectypoida
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Echinogalerus transversus
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Echinogalerus sp.
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Echinoidea
- Diadematoida
- Diadematidae
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? Centrostephanus sp.
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Echinoidea
- Stomopneustoida
- Stomechinidae
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? Trochalosoma corneti
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Phymotaxis tournoueri
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Echinoidea
- Arbacioida
- Arbaciidae
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Goniopygus sp.
Agassiz 1838
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Codiopsis disculus
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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? Goniocidaris sp.
Desor, in Agassiz & Desor 1846
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Temnocidaris sp.
Cotteau 1863
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Temnocidaris gigas
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Psychocidaridae
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Tylocidaris hardouini
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Sphaerasteridae
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Valettaster ex gr. ocellatus
(Forbes 1848)
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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Goniasteridae indet.
Forbes 1841
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Metopaster miriamae
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Metopaster lisannae
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Metopaster sp.
Sladen 1893
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Metopaster alexiae
Jagt 2000
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Recurvaster antemammillatus
Jagt 2000
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Asteroidea
- Paxillosida
- Astropectinidae
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Aldebarania sp.
Blake and Sturgeon 1995
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Ophiuroidea
- Euryalida
- Euryalidae
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? Trichaster ornatus
(Rasmussen 1950)
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Ophiuroidea
- Ophiurida
- Ophiuridae
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? Ophiocten yvonnae
Jagt 2000
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Felderophiura vanderhami
Jagt 1991
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Ophiuroidea
- Ophiurida
- Ophiosphalmidae
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? Ophiomusium lux
Jagt 2000
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Ophiuroidea
- Amphilepidida
- Amphiuridae
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Deckersamphiura inusitata
Jagt 2000
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Ophiuroidea
- Ophiacanthida
- Ophiomyxidae
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? Ophiarachna martinblomi
Jagt 2000
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? Ophiomyxa rhipidata
Kutscher and Jagt 2000
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? Ophiomyxa jekerica
(Berry 1938)
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Crinoidea
- Isocrinida
- Cainocrinidae
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Nielsenicrinus ewaldi
Jagt 1999
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Crinoidea
- Comatulida
- Conometridae
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Amphorometra ex gr. conoidea
(Goldfuss 1839)
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Crinoidea
- Comatulida
- Pterocomidae
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Placometra ex gr. laticirra
(Carpenter 1880)
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Crinoidea
- Comatulida
- Jaekelometridae
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Jaekelometra ex gr. belgica
(Jaekel 1902)
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Jaekelometra ex gr. concava
(Schlüter 1878)
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Crinoidea
- Comatulida
- Notocrinidae
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Semiometra lenticularis
(Rasmussen 1961)
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Semiometra saskiae
Jagt 1999
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
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Prehepatus werneri n. sp.
Fraaye and Collins 1987
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| synonym of Roemerus ornatissimus | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Netherlands | State/province: | Limburg |
| Coordinates: | 50.9° North, 5.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.4° North, 4.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 124 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous - Early/Lower Tertiary | ||
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian - Early/Lower Danian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Ammonoid zone: | Belemnitella junior |
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Maastricht | Member: | Meerssen | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle part of Meerssen member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified grainstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Poorly indurated white yellowish coarse- to very coarse-grained chalks with clearly developed hardgrounds and fossil hash layers | |||
| Environment: | shoreface | Tectonic setting: | cratonic basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Geo Centrum Brabant | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32167 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Villier, J. Alroy | Enterer: | L. Villier, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | decapod,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-06-08 04:49:21 | Last modified: | 2018-02-17 16:12:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-06-08 04:49:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30244. | R. H. B. Fraaye and J. S. H. Collins. 1987. A new crab, Prehepatus werneri (Crustacea: Decapoda), from the Maastrichtian of the Netherlands. Journal of Paleontology 61(3):549-551 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 44455 | decapod | J. S. H. Collins, R. H. B. Fraaye, and W.M. Jagt. 1995. Late Cretaceous anomurans and brachyurans from the Maastrichtian type area. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40(2):165-210 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/E. Johnson] |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |