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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
"Ophiura furstenbergii" = Ophioplinthaca fuerstenbergii
"Ophiura furstenbergii" = Ophioplinthaca fuerstenbergii Müller 1847 brittle star | |
Echinoidea | |
? Echinogalerus hemisphaericus sea urchin | |
Cardiaster aff. granulosus Goldfuss 1826 sea urchin
Echinocorys ex gr. humilis sea urchin | |
Diplodetus sp. heart urchin | |
Hemiaster ex gr. aquisgranensis heart urchin | |
Gauthieria pseudoradiata Schluter 1883 sea urchin | |
Zeuglopleurus ? rowei sea urchin |