ENCI-Maastricht B.V. quarry (Nekum) (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Also known as Moasaurus hoffmanni type, St Pietersberg

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper third of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; chalk

• "flint layer 18...The matrix surrounding the specimen is a soft fine-grained slightly clayey biocalcarenite, with numerous hard flint nodules and tubes insinuated through the bone-bearing level."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1770-1774

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138726: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2013, edited by Mihaela Krause, Jonathan Tennant and Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
Placocoenia macrophthalma5 Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
"isolated bone fragments"
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
"Allopleuron hoffmanni n. gen. n. sp." = Chelonia hoffmanni4
"Allopleuron hoffmanni n. gen. n. sp." = Chelonia hoffmanni4 Gray 1831 green sea turtle
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet.1 Gervais 1852 mosasaur
"isolated bone fragments"
Plioplatecarpus marshi n. sp.1 Dollo 1882 mosasaur
MNHN AC 9649-9775, a large portion of vertebral column including 127 vertebrae
"Mosasaurus hoffmanni n. gen. n. sp." = Mosasaurus hoffmannii2 Mantell 1829 mosasaur
MNHN AC 9648, partial skull
Prognathodon sectorius1 Cope 1871 mosasaur
MNHN 1896-27, tooth
Prognathodon saturator3 Dortangs et al. 2002 mosasaur
IRScNB R24 (originally assigned to Mosasaurus giganteus)
Carinodens belgicus3 Woodward 1891 mosasaur