The belemnite zonation of the uppermost Cretaceous in the Maastricht-Aachen-Liège, Brabant-Méhaigne and Mons areas (Belgium, southeast Netherlands)

Abstract An overview is presented of belemnitellid faunas of Santonian to Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) age in the Mons Basin and in the Brabant-Méhaigne and Maastricht-Aachen-Liège areas (Belgium, southeast Netherlands). As many as twenty-two species of the genera Actinocamax Miller, 1823, Gonioteuthis Bayle, 1878, Belemnitella d'Orbigny, 1840 and Belemnella Nowak, 1913 have been recorded to date. On the basis of these, thirteen zones can be distinguished: three in the Santonian ( G. w. westfalica, G. westfalicagranulata and G. granulata ), six in the Campanian ( G. granulataquadrata, G. qu... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Keutgen, N.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Reihe/Periodikum: Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw ; volume 90, issue 2-3, page 165-178 ; ISSN 0016-7746 1573-9708
Verlag/Hrsg.: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600001086

Abstract An overview is presented of belemnitellid faunas of Santonian to Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) age in the Mons Basin and in the Brabant-Méhaigne and Maastricht-Aachen-Liège areas (Belgium, southeast Netherlands). As many as twenty-two species of the genera Actinocamax Miller, 1823, Gonioteuthis Bayle, 1878, Belemnitella d'Orbigny, 1840 and Belemnella Nowak, 1913 have been recorded to date. On the basis of these, thirteen zones can be distinguished: three in the Santonian ( G. w. westfalica, G. westfalicagranulata and G. granulata ), six in the Campanian ( G. granulataquadrata, G. quadrata, Blt. mucronata, Blt. woodi, Blt. minor I and Blt. minor II) and four in the Maastrichtian ( Bln. obtusa, Bln. ex gr. sumensis/cimbrica, Blt. junior and Bln. kazimiroviensis ). Correlative schemes between these zones and those proposed for Norfolk (southeast England) and for the combined Lägerdorf-Kronsmoor-Hemmoor section (northern Germany) are presented. The belemnitellid assemblage of the study area closely resembles that of Norfolk, but differs from the late Campanian faunas of northwest Germany.