Vroenhoven (Albert Canal), Bryozoa-bed (Cretaceous of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.8° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Bryozoa-bed, directly overlying the Kaster Horizon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Jagt

• Repository: collection J. Jagt

Primary reference: J. F. Geys and J. Jagt. 1986. Additional regular echinoids from the Upper Cretaceous in the Maastricht area (Belgium). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 60:93-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196855: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.10.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Euechinoidea - Orthopsidae
Orthopsis miliaris d'Archiac 1835 sea urchin
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Carinodens belgicus Woodward 1891 mosasaur
NHMM 2012 033