Maastricht area, Meerssen Member, IVf-7 (Paleocene of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• bed IVf-7, lowermost Danian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Leloux. 1999. Numerical distribution of Santonian to Danian corals (Scleractinia, Octocorallia) of southern Limburg, the Netherlands. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:191-195 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85275: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Pennatulacea -
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea geminata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
"Montastrea rotula" = Paraplacocoenia rotula
"Montastrea rotula" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Placosmilia robusta" = Peplosmilia latona
"Placosmilia robusta" = Peplosmilia latona Felix 1903 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Diploctenium cordatum Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Dimorphastrea solida Umbgrove 1925 stony coral