Where: Belgium (50.9° N, 4.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 3.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Nekum Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• 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: Collection is a composite of the entire member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Multople collectors. REPOSITORY: Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum, Maastricht (NHM), Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (MNB)
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1986. The Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite sequence in the environs of Maastricht (Limburg, the Netherlands), Limburg and Liége provinces (Belgium). Newsletters in Stratigraphy 16(3):149-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82493: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Sphenodiscus binkhorsti Böhm 1898 ammonite | |
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite | |
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801 ammonite
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822 ammonite | |
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite |