Tournai, Dièves deposit (IRSNB/KBIN collection) (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.6° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• "Dièves"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN) = Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRScNB)

Primary reference: J. F. Geys. 1982. Regular echinoids from the Turonian and the Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Mons Basin (Belgium). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 53:1-20 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196997: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria radiata Sorignet 1850 sea urchin