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] |