ENCI Quarry, Maastricht [Nekum Chalk, Maastricht Fm]: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Belgium
collected by Jagt

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Belgium
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 4.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maastricht Member:Nekum
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Nekum Chalk of the Maastricht Fm, and overlies the Valkenburg Chalk of the Maastricht Fm. AGE: early Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite and belemnite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the Laumont Horizon of the Nekum Chalk.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No specific lithological data reported in text. Probably 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:Jagt
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: W. M. Jagt. REPOSITORY: Unknown repository, presumably in the Netherlands.
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:82926
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-08-05 03:27:44 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-08-05 03:27:44
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]