Zwartberg (shaft of colliery) (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (51.0° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Unspecified Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen

Primary reference: J. F. Geys. 1981. Arbacioid echinoids from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Belgium and the Netherlands. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 55:257-270 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196834: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Goniopygus minor Sorignet 1850 sea urchin
Goniopygus eravillensis Arnaud 1889 sea urchin