Maastricht area, Meerssen Member, IVf-4 (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed IVf-4

• 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 85272: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.12.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause and Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Pennatulacea -
 Gorgonacea -
Moltkia minuta Nielsen 1918 gorgonian
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea geminata1 Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Columactinastraea anthonii n. sp.4 Leloux 2003 stony coral
"Columnastraea fallax" = Columactinastraea fallax Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinhelia elegans Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae
"Montastrea maxima" = Baryphyllia maxima
"Montastrea maxima" = Baryphyllia maxima Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Synastrea escharoides" = Morphastrea escharoides
"Synastrea escharoides" = Morphastrea escharoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Synastraeidae
Synastrea geometrica Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
"? Fungiastraea textilis" = Meandrophyllia textilis, "? Fungiastraea velamentosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa, "Meandrophyllia gyrosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa, "Montastrea arachnoides" = Pleurocora arachnoides
"? Fungiastraea textilis" = Meandrophyllia textilis Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"? Fungiastraea velamentosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Meandrophyllia gyrosa" = Meandrophyllia velamentosa Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Montastrea arachnoides" = Pleurocora arachnoides Knorr and Walch 1777 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyclolitidae
"Synastrea clathrata" = Aspidastraea clathrata
"Synastrea clathrata" = Aspidastraea clathrata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
Placocoenia macrophthalma5 Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
""Montastrea" rotula" = Paraplacocoenia rotula2 Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Leptoria (Dictuophyllia) reticulata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea angulosa, Montlivaltia angusticostata, "Placosmilia robusta" = Peplosmilia latona, "Edwardsosmilia faujasi" = Trochosmilia faujasi
Isastrea angulosa Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Montlivaltia angusticostata Umbgrove 1925 stony coral
"Placosmilia robusta" = Peplosmilia latona Felix 1903 stony coral
"Edwardsosmilia faujasi" = Trochosmilia faujasi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
"Diploctenium pluma" = Diploctenium plumum Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
Diploctenium cordatum Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
""Montastrea" franqana" = Montastraea2
""Montastrea" franqana" = Montastraea2 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia candelabrum3 Henning 1899 stony coral
Areopsammia alacca Morren 1828 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Dimorphastrea solida Umbgrove 1925 stony coral