Echinoderms, Lanaye, Gulpen, Enci-Maastricht (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lanaye Member (Gulpen Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified wackestone

• White, fine-grained chalks with irregular light to dark blue-grey flint nodules

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 3: Ophiuroids. Scripta Geologica 21:1-179 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32159: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.06.2003, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp.4 Parkinson 1822 mosasaur
Two tooth crowns
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Temnocidaris sp.2 Cotteau 1863 pencil urchin
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
"Salenia maestrichtensis" = Salenidia maestrichtensis2
"Salenia maestrichtensis" = Salenidia maestrichtensis2 Schluter 1892 sea urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata2 Schluter 1883 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster koninckanus2 heart urchin
Hemiaster prunella2 Lamarck 1816 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Diplodetus bucardium2 heart urchin
Diplodetus parvistella2 heart urchin
 Spatangoida -
Leymeriaster eluvialis2 van der Ham 1995 heart urchin
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
"Hemipneustes striatoradiatus" = Hemipneustes striatoradiatus2, "Hemipneustes oculatus" = Hemipneustes striatoradiatus2
"Hemipneustes striatoradiatus" = Hemipneustes striatoradiatus2 Leske 1778 sea urchin
"Hemipneustes oculatus" = Hemipneustes striatoradiatus2 Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Nucleopygus scrobiculatus2 Goldufss 1826 sea urchin
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
? Ophioderma radiatum Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star
few dissociated lateral arm plates
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
? Ophiomusium granulosum Roemer 1841 brittle star
many thousands of disc and arm ossicles
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata
"Ophiotitanos serrata" = Ophiura serrata Roemer 1841 brittle star
few arm fragments
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Lophidiaster pygmaeus3 Spencer 1913 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Chomataster acules3 Spencer 1913 sea star
Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Dunnicrinus aequalis1 D'Orbigny 1841 Feather star