Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 5.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Craie d'Obourg Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Craie d'Obourg, which unconformably overlies the Craie de Triviéres (Early Campanian), and is gradationally overlain by the Craie de Nouvelles (Late Campanian). AGE: early Late Campanian, 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, hardground, white, calcareous lime mudstone
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 82895: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2008, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Rhinobatos casieri Herman 1977 guitarfish | |
Cephalopoda | |
Glyptoxoceras retrorsum Schlüter 1872 ammonite | |
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite
Baculites aquilaensis Reeside 1927 ammonite | |
Scaphites (Scaphites) gibbus Schlüter 1872 ammonite | |
"Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) stobaei" = Patagiosites stobaei, "Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) cf. subrobustus" = Pachydiscus subrobustus, Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) cf. oldhami
"Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) stobaei" = Patagiosites stobaei Nilsson 1827 ammonite
"Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) cf. subrobustus" = Pachydiscus subrobustus Seunes 1892 ammonite
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) cf. oldhami Sharpe 1855 ammonite | |
"Aptychus" portlockii ammonite |