Where: Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnella junior zone, Meersen Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Meersen Chalk of the Maastricht Fm, and overlies the Nekum Chalk of the Maastricht Fm. AGE: early Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite and belemnite biostratigraphy; Belemnella junior-Belemnella casimirovensis zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is a composite of the entire member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Multople collectors. REPOSITORY: Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum, Maastricht (NHM), Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (MNB)
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1986. The Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite sequence in the environs of Maastricht (Limburg, the Netherlands), Limburg and Liége provinces (Belgium). Newsletters in Stratigraphy 16(3):149-168 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82496: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite | |
Nostoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822 ammonite
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801 ammonite
"Eubaculites lyelli" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite | |
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Sphenodiscus binkhorsti Böhm 1898 ammonite | |
Belemnella junior belemnite
Belemnella casimirovensis belemnite |