Ankerpoort-'t Rooth, NEKAMI Quarry, Meerssen Member (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Also known as Eben Emael

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• From the Md (=Maastricht Formation, Meerssen Member in current terminology)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. C. Roos in the mid-1960s

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (float),

• K. C. Roos collection of NHMM, Naturhistorisch Museum Maastricht

•Collected from excavated material on the quarry floor

Primary reference: E. W. A. Mulder, N. Bardet, P. Godefroit and J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Elasmosaur remains from the Maastrichtian type area, and a review of latest Cretaceous elasmosaurs (Reptilia, Plesiosauroidea). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturalles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 70:161-178 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143252: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
A well-preserved pectoral or sacral centrum (NHMM 1985141)