Craie de Ciply, Mons Basin (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 3.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Craie de Ciply Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Craie de Ciply, which unconformably overlies the Craie de Spiennes (Late Campanian), and is unconformably overlain by the Tuffeau de Saint-Symphorien (Late Maastrichtian). AGE: Early Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite and belemnite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection is a composite of the entire formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, brown, gray, calcareous, cherty/siliceous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Gray to brownish calcarenite consisting of many phosphatic grains in a chalky matrix and generally with flint bands. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Multpple collectors, but probably including W.J. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1993. Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from the Mons Basin and adajcent areas (Belgium). Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 63:99-131 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82892: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2008, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to representative, common, and biostratigraphically important ammonoids and belemnites. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites baculus Meek and Hayden 1861 ammonite
Baculites knorrianus Desmarest 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
Neancyloceras bipunctatum Schlüter 1872 ammonite
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet.1, "Halisaurus ortliebi" = Phosphorosaurus ortliebi2, Plioplatecarpus houzeaui2, "Mosasaurus hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii2, Prognathodon solvayi2, "Bottosaurus belgicus n. sp." = Compressidens belgicus3
Mosasauridae indet.1 Gervais 1852 mosasaur
MNHN 1895-17; MNHN 1898-20; MNHN 1908-36
"Halisaurus ortliebi" = Phosphorosaurus ortliebi2 Dollo 1889 mosasaur
Plioplatecarpus houzeaui2 Dollo 1889 mosasaur
"Mosasaurus hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii2 Mantell 1829 mosasaur
MNHN 1898-5
Prognathodon solvayi2 Dollo 1889 mosasaur
"Bottosaurus belgicus n. sp." = Compressidens belgicus3 Woodward 1891 mosasaur