Echinoderms, Vaals, Haccourt (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.7° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 6.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vaals Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, green sandstone

• Cyclic alternation of poorly indurated, yellowish to greyish-green, glauconitic sands

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids. Scripta Geologica 21:181-375 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32171: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.06.2003

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
"Ophiura furstenbergii" = Ophioplinthaca fuerstenbergii
"Ophiura furstenbergii" = Ophioplinthaca fuerstenbergii Müller 1847 brittle star
Echinoidea
 Holectypoida -
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Cardiaster aff. granulosus Goldfuss 1826 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Diplodetus sp. heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata Schluter 1883 sea urchin
 Camarodonta - Temnopleuridae