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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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My Hunting trip to Eben Emael (Maastrichtian of Belgium)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, From now on I will post my hunting trip reports to Eben Emael as I often forget to make separate posts for them. I visit the Romontbos Quarry in Eben Emael multiple times a year with our fossil club, the BVP (Belgische vereniging voor Paleontologie). It's one of the last active locations that's still accessible in the Maastrichtian Type Location that allows hunting, and the quarry is only a 20 minute drive away for me, so that's ideal. DISCLAIMER: For all new fossil hunters: This location is off-limits for individual people! You cannot go hunt there on your own. The quarry is very strict and does not allow trespassing. This is an amazing location with great fossil finds, so I cannot stress it enough to not enter this place illegal as it could put a stop to fossil hunting for everyone here. If you want to go on a fossil hunt here, join the BVP! They are the only ones with permission to access the quarry, and they organize multiple excursions to the quarry each year under strict safety protocols. If we behave, and no one blows it by trespassing, we should be able to have access to this quarry until the year 2043. Now that's out of the way, let me introduce this amazing location which is my favorite place to hunt! The Romontbos quarry in Eben Emael is part of "Mount Saint Peter" which lies on the Dutch/Belgian border and is home to the so called Limburg/Liege chalk also know locally as "Limburgse mergel" which was often used as building blocks in the past which is why you can see serpulids, oysters and urchins in the stones of old buildings in the region. The quarry is located only a couple of km from the city of Maastricht and "Mount Saint Peter" is the location where one of the first biggest fossil discoveries has been made, a skull of Mosasaurus hoffmanni A.K.A "The Beast of Maastricht" back in around 1766. The layers of Eben-Emael are part of the Maastrichtian type locality dating back to around 70 - 66 million years ago, during that time this area of Belgium and the Netherlands was part of a shallow tropical sea. The layers in the quarry have a very rich fauna and floral list: You can find many bivalves (Acutostrean Agerostrea, Pinna, Neithea, ...), Gastropods, Brachiopods, Serpulids, Belemnites, Crustacean claws (Mesostylus faujasi), sea urchins (Hemipneustes striatoradiatus, ...) and shark teeth (Squalicorax, Pseudocorax, Palaeohypotodus, ...). For the microfossil lovers there is also oportunities to collect Bryozoans and Forarminifera There is also fish material like fish teeth and the odd scale or vertebra to be found, or if you are very lucky you can find fossils of one of the many species of Mosasaur and Sea Turtles that swam in this shallow sea. But also plant material can be found like Sea Grass (Thalassocharis) of which this quarry is one of the only places in the world where you can find sea grass. But also Conifer material has been found regulary at past excursions. Also known from this location and other localities in the Maastrichtian type locality but exceedingly rare are ammonites, crab carapaces, sawfish material, Elasmosaur material, dinosaur material (Betasuchus and Hadrosaurs), marine crocodile material and bird fossils. It is in this same quarry that "the wonder chicken" Asteriornis maastrichtensis and Janavis finalidens were found. Should you see me on one of the excursions, feel free to say hi and come for a talk! Also feel free to share your own fossils from your trips to Eben-Emael, the more the merrier!- 31 replies
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Hello all! I visited a small creek not far away from where I live (Vaals, Selzerbeek). This location has late Cretaceous sediments from the Gulpen and Maastricht Formations (Kalksteen van Vijlen, Orsbach Kreide en Kunrader Kalksteen). I think most of the finds are from the Vijlen Kalksteen (Vijlen Chalk). Found some nice late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) fossils including some small shark teeth and one fossil gastropod Steinkern/internal mold (I don't know the exact species). The fossils are belemnites (Belemnitella and Belemnella (Pachybelemnella) sp., parts of Echinocorys sea urchins (I think Echinocorys scutata (Leske, 1778) and one complete one (possible Echinocorys scutata (Leske, 1778), oysters (Pycnodonte vesicularis (Lamarck, 1806) and one Cardiaster sp. (possibly C. granulosus (Goldfuss, 1829). The shark teeth (crowns) in particular are quite rare from this location and one crown is 1,4-1,5 cm long. One small shark teeth has the roots. I am not quite sure which species this is (third tooth at the bottom row in the first picture). Also found one Equus sp. (horse tooth) and one unkown tooth from the Holocone or Pleistocene epoch. Edited: the small shark tooth with the root and side cusps is possibly Cretalamna appendiculata (Agassiz, 1843) and the snail is Natica sp. (N. cretacea (Goldfuss,1844). Its possible that crowns of Pseudocorax sp. are also present (and Carcharias sp.).
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Hello all, Today I found some very cool (and rare) Cretaceous fossils in Limburg (The Netherlands). Belemnites, one sea urchin (Echinocorys sp.) and 2 rare Phragmocones (from Belemnites) were also found (two on the left corner). And also sharkteeth! Can anyone help me with identifying the shark teeth? (max size is 1 cm). Kind regards, Ruben
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