Vijlen, Cottessen [Vaals Fm]: Late/Upper Campanian, Netherlands
collected by Felder

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti (Coquand 1859)
recombined as Hoplitoplacenticeras (Hoplitoplacenticeras) marroti
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 6.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.4° North, 7.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian Ammonoid zone: Hoplitoplacenticeras vari
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vaals
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No specific lithological data reported in text. Possibly chalk. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Felder
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Felder. REPOSITORY: Naturhistorisch Museum, Maastricht (NHM).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to representative, common, and biostratigraphically important ammonoids and belemnites. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:82921
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-08-05 02:58:33 Last modified:2021-03-22 09:46:03
Access level:the public Released:2008-08-05 02:58:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27872. W. J. Kennedy. 1986. The ammonite fauna of the type Maastrichtian with a revision of Ammonites colligatus Binkhorst, 1861. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg.: Science de la Terre 56:151-267 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]