Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 3.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Craie de Ciply Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Craie de Ciply, which unconformably overlies the Craie de Spiennes (Late Campanian), and is unconformably overlain by the Tuffeau de Saint-Symphorien (Late Maastrichtian). AGE: Early Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite and belemnite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is a composite of the entire formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, brown, gray, calcareous, cherty/siliceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Multpple collectors, but probably including W.J. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum.
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1993. Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from the Mons Basin and adajcent areas (Belgium). Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 63:99-131 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82892: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2008, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet.1, "Halisaurus ortliebi" = Phosphorosaurus ortliebi2, Plioplatecarpus houzeaui2, Prognathodon solvayi2, "Mosasaurus hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii2, "Bottosaurus belgicus n. sp." = Compressidens belgicus3
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Cephalopoda | |
Nostoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Neancyloceras bipunctatum, Diplomoceras cylindraceum, Pseudoxybeloceras (Parasolenoceras) interruptum
Neancyloceras bipunctatum Schlüter 1872 ammonite
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
Pseudoxybeloceras (Parasolenoceras) interruptum Schlüter 1872 ammonite | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites baculus Meek and Hayden 1861 ammonite
Baculites knorrianus Desmarest 1817 ammonite | |
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) cf. neubergicus Hauer 1858 ammonite |