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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur A well-preserved pectoral or sacral centrum (NHMM 1985141)
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