Holtug, Stevns Klint (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (55.3° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis other zone, Danish White Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Belemnella (Neobelemnella) kazimiroviensis Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; white limestone

• White chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Alice Rasmussen in 1987-2005

Primary reference: J. Lindgren and J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Danish mosasaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):315-320 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 140267: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet., Plioplatecarpus sp.
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
MGUH V2004-348a/d (four fragments of a ?dorsal vertebra)
Plioplatecarpus sp. Dollo 1882 mosasaur
MGUH DK 424 (an association comprising a marginal tooth crown, an incomplete tooth base, a piece of ?sclerotic ring, and several unidentifiable skeletal fragments, presumably from a single individual)