ENCI-Maastricht B.V. quarry (flint layer 18): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Netherlands
collected by R. Dortangs 1998-1999

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella junior
Gallagher et al. 2004
guard shells
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Gallagher et al. 2004 1 specimen
partial stem
Chondrichthyes - Selachii
Selachii indet.
shark centra and shark bite-marks present on mosasaur
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Plicatoscyllium minutum (Forir 1887)
Gallagher et al. 2004
teeth
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Palaeohypotodus" bronni
Gallagher et al. 2004
teeth
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax pristodontus (Agassiz 1835)
Gallagher et al. 2004
teeth
Reptilia
? Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
Gallagher et al. 2004
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Prognathodon saturator n. sp. Dortangs et al. 2002
1 individual
NHMM 1998141
Actinopteri - Salmoniformes - Cimolichthyidae
? Cimolichthys sp. Leidy
Gallagher et al. 2004 1 specimen
jaw, listed as "cf. ?Cimolichthys"
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands State/province:Limburg
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 4.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Belemnitella junior
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gulpen Member:Lanaye
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of the Lanaye Member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,nodular,shelly/skeletal argillaceous grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "flint layer 18...The matrix surrounding the specimen is a soft fine-grained slightly clayey biocalcarenite, with numerous hard flint nodules and tubes insinuated through the bone-bearing level."
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:R. Dortangs Collection dates:1998-1999
Metadata
Also known as:Prognathodon saturator type
Database number:116894
Authorizer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano Enterer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2011-09-13 22:19:52 Last modified:2021-03-22 13:29:20
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-13 22:19:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37604. R. W. Dortangs, A. S. Schulp, E. W. A. Mulder, J. W. M. Jagt, H. H. G. Peeters and D. T. Graaf. 2002. A large new mosasaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the Netherlands. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences/Geologie en Mijnbouw 81(1):1-8 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

44448 W. B. Gallagher, J. W. M. Jagt, E. W. A. Mulder and A. S. Schulp. 2004. A new mosasaur specimen from Maastricht (the Netherlands), with a review of the Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene marine faunas of New Jersey and Limburg. The Mosasaur 7:47-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]