Echinoderms, Lanaye, Gulpen, Enci-Maastricht: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Lophidiaster pygmaeus Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Chomataster acules Spencer 1913
Jagt 2000
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
? Ophiomusium granulosum (Roemer 1841)
many thousands of disc and arm ossicles
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Ophiotitanos serrata (Roemer 1841)
original and current combination Ophiura serrata
few arm fragments
Ophiuroidea - Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
? Ophioderma radiatum Kutscher and Jagt 2000
few dissociated lateral arm plates
Echinoidea - Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
? Trochalosoma corneti
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Catopygus fenestratus
Jagt 2000
Nucleopygus coravium
Jagt 2000
Nucleopygus scrobiculatus (Goldufss 1826)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Oolopygus pyriformis
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Diplodetus bucardium
Jagt 2000
Diplodetus parvistella
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida
Leymeriaster eluvialis van der Ham 1995
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster ex gr. aquisgranensis
Jagt 2000
Hemiaster koninckanus
Jagt 2000
Hemiaster prunella (Lamarck 1816)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Hemipneustes striatoradiatus (Leske 1778)
Jagt 2000
Hemipneustes oculatus Cotteau 1892
Jagt 2000
synonym of Hemipneustes striatoradiatus
Echinoidea - Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia maestrichtensis Schluter 1892
Jagt 2000
recombined as Salenidia maestrichtensis
Echinoidea - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria pseudoradiata (Schluter 1883)
Jagt 2000
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Temnocidaris sp. Cotteau 1863
Jagt 2000
Crinoidea - Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Dunnicrinus aequalis (D'Orbigny 1841)
Jagt 1999
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
Jagt 2005
Two tooth crowns
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands State/province:Limburg County:Maastricht
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 4.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:63 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Maastrichtian - Early/Lower Maastrictian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gulpen Member:Lanaye
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: White, fine-grained chalks with irregular light to dark blue-grey flint nodules
Environment:offshore indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32159
Authorizer:L. Villier, P. Mannion Enterer:L. Villier, J. Tennant
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-07 06:44:09 Last modified:2021-03-22 13:39:49
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-07 06:44:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8592. 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]

Secondary references:

8665 J. W. M. Jagt. 1999. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 2: Crinoids. Scripta Geologica 116:59-255 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]
16834 J. W. M. Jagt. 1999. An Overview of Late Cretaceous and Early Paleogene Echinoderm Faunas from Liège-Limburg (Belgium, The Netherlands). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 69:103-118 [L. Villier/J. Millet/L. Villier]
8661 J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 4: Echinoids. Scripta Geologica 21:181-375 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]
8664 J. W. M. Jagt. 2000. Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene echinoderms and the K/T boundary in the southeast Netherlands and the northeast Belgium. - part 5: Asteroids. Scripta Geologica 21:377-503 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]
46315 J. W. M. Jagt. 2005. Stratigraphic ranges of mosasaurs in Belgium and the Netherlands (Late Cretaceous) and cephalopod-based correlations with North America. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):283-301 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]