ammonites
Echinoderms, Geulhem, Houthem, Geulhem (Paleocene of Netherlands)

Where: Limburg, Netherlands (50.9° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 3.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Geulhem Member (Houthem Formation), Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified packstone

• Poorly indurated, light yellowish-grey, fine- to coarse-grained chalks with varying glauconite content

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32170: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.06.2003