Craie de Ciply, Mons Basin: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN 1895-17; MNHN 1898-20; MNHN 1908-36 | ||||||||||
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Mosasaurus cf. lemonnieri
Dollo 1889
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Bardet 2012 | |||||||||
| MNHN 1898-5 | ||||||||||
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= Mosasaurus hoffmanni
Mantell 1829
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Jagt et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Mosasaurus hoffmannii | ||||||||||
| Juvenile? | ||||||||||
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Prognathodon solvayi
Dollo 1889
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Jagt et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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Halisaurus ortliebi
(Dollo 1889)
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Jagt et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Phosphorosaurus ortliebi | ||||||||||
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Plioplatecarpus houzeaui
Dollo 1889
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Jagt et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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Bottosaurus belgicus n. sp.
Woodward 1891
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Woodward 1891 | |||||||||
| recombined as Compressidens belgicus | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Diplomoceratidae
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Pseudoxybeloceras (Parasolenoceras) interruptum
(Schlüter 1872)
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Diplomoceras cylindraceum
(Defrance 1816)
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Neancyloceras bipunctatum
(Schlüter 1872)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Nostoceratidae
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Nostoceras sp.
Hyatt 1894
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Baculitidae
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Baculites sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Baculites knorrianus
Desmarest 1817
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Baculites baculus
Meek and Hayden 1861
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Scaphitidae
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Hoploscaphites constrictus
(Sowerby 1817)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Pachydiscidae
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Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) sp.
Zittel 1884
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Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) cf. neubergicus
(Hauer 1858)
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Geography
| Country: | Belgium |
| Coordinates: | 50.4° North, 3.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.0° North, 3.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Craie de Ciply | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic,brown,gray lithified calcareous,cherty/siliceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: 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. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Multpple collectors, but probably including W.J. Kennedy. REPOSITORY: Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to representative, common, and biostratigraphically important ammonoids and belemnites. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 82892 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | A. Hendy, M. Uhen, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-03 15:02:50 | Last modified: | 2023-08-08 06:34:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-03 15:02:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27863. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 46107 | N. Bardet. 2012. The mosasaur collections of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183(1):35-53 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 46151 | J. W. M. Jagt, N. Motchurova-Dekova, P. Ivanov, H. Capetta, and A. S. Schulp. 2006. Latest Cretaceous mosasaurs and lamniform sharks from Labirinta cave, Vratsa district (northwest Bulgaria): a preliminary note. Annales Geologiques de la Peninsule Balkanique 67:51-63 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 67750 | A. S. Woodward. 1891. Note on tooth of an extinct alligator (Bottosaurus belgicus, sp. nov.) from the Lower Danian of Ciply, Belgium. Geological Magazine 8(3):114-115 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/M. Uhen] |