Ankerpoort-'t Rooth, NEKAMI Quarry, Nekum Member (Cretaceous of Netherlands)

Also known as Eben Emael, Bemelen

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.8° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nekum Member (Maastricht Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Cannot tell which member because element picked off a conveyer belt in quarry, but cannot be Valkenburg Chalk b/c layer not mined. ?Nekum Mb.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. C. Roos in the mid-1960s

Collection methods: salvage,

• element picked off a conveyer belt in quarry

•K. C. Roos collection of NHMM, Naturhistorisch Museum Maastricht (Mulder et al. 2000)

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut, A. W. F. Meijer, P. Taquet and G. Wouters. 1985. New remains of hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia, Ornithischia) from the Maastrichtian of Dutch and Belgian Limburg. Revue de Paléobiologie 4(1):65-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48876: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
NHMM 198027, R dentary fragment
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet.2 crocodilian
vertebrae