Echinoderms, Emael, Maastricht, Enci-Maastricht: Late/Upper 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
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Ophidercetis italiensis Taverne 2005
Taverne and Goolaerts 2015
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 - Bourgueticrinidae
Dunnicrinus aequalis (D'Orbigny 1841)
Jagt 1999
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
? Micropsis caementa
Gauthieria pseudoradiata (Schluter 1883)
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia bonissenti Cotteau 1866
recombined as Salenidia bonissenti
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Oolopygus pyriformis
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Chomataster acules Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands County:Maastricht
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 4.5° 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 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:Emael
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Poorly indurated white-yellowish and yellowish-brown, fine- coarse-grained, homogeneous chalks
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
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:32177
Authorizer:L. Villier, M. Clapham, W. Kiessling Enterer:L. Villier, J. Mordaunt, U. Merkel
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-09 02:04:34 Last modified:2003-06-09 05:04:41
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-09 02:04:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

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]
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]
77391 L. Taverne and S. Goolaerts. 2015. The dercetid fishes (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Belgium and The Netherlands. Geologica Belgica 18(1):21-30 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt]