Ankerpoort-Curfs quarry, Geulhem (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Also known as Curfs te Geulhem

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• base of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained chalk

• "a fine-grained calcareous, friable, and microporous series (chalk)"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1967

Primary reference: E. W. A. Mulder. 1984. Resten van Telmatosaurus (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) uit het Boven-Krijt van Zuid-Limburg [Remains of Telmatosaurus (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of South Limburg]. Grondboor en Hamer 1984(3/4):108-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67134: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• also lists "corals", "bivalves", and "sea urchins"
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Diploctenium sp.1 Goldfuss 1827 stony coral
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites vertebralis1 Lamarck 1801 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema sp.1 Meek 1864 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Veneridae indet.1 Rafinesque 1815 venus clam
  - Aviculidae
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster prunella1 Lamarck 1816 heart urchin
 Clypeasteroida - Faujasiidae
Faujasia apicalis1 Desor 1847 sand dollar
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Carinodens belgicus2 Woodward 1891 mosasaur
NHMM WR 1846
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur
OGP 0196, 2111
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
MND K 21.04.003, 21.04.004, 21.04.005
 Ichnofossils -
Gastrochaenolites sp.1 Leymerie 1842
bivalve borings on dinosaur bone