Benzenrade, Kunrade Chalk (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.9° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kunrade Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. W. J. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, and L. Inderherberge. 2007. Seagrass foliage from the Maastrichtian type area (Maastrichtian, Danian, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 144(3-4):301-321 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123187: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Alismatales -
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Hippothoidae
Kunradina bicincta n. gen. n. sp.
Kunradina bicincta n. gen. n. sp. Voigt 1981
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Thalassotaenia debeyi
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Thalassotaenia debeyi van der Ham et al. 2007