Maastricht area (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 4.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lanaye Member (Gulpen Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• uppermost member of the Gulpen Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 85266: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Montipora cretacea Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
 Pennatulacea -