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Leymeriaster campestris, a new early Campanian hemiasterid echinoid from southern Limburg, the Netherlands*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

R.W.J.M. van der Ham ,
J.W.M. Jagt  and
H.J. Janssens
R.W.J.M. van der Ham*
Affiliation:
Piet Heinstraat 6, NL-2628 RK Delft, the Netherlands
J.W.M. Jagt
Affiliation:
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, de Bosquetplein 6-7, NL-6211 KJ Maastricht, the Netherlands
H.J. Janssens
Affiliation:
Rijksweg 97, NL-6271 AD Gulpen, the Netherlands
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*Email: ham@nhn.leidenuniv.nl
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In the type area of the Maastrichtian Stage (northeast Belgium, southeast Netherlands), two species of the rare hemiasterid echinoid genus Leymeriaster were known to date. Here we describe a third, L. campestris sp. nov., from the so-called ‘Laagje van Müller’ (Gemmenich Member, Vaals Formation) at Vaals-Eschberg, southern Limburg (the Netherlands), which is of early Campanian age. It differs from its late Maastrichtian congeners in the area, L. maestrichtensis and L. eluvialis, in that the pore pairs in the frontal groove of ambulacrum III are not in small depressions and the adjacent interambulacral margins are not thickened, raised and/or overhanging. It differs from L. maestrichtensis by the lack of a clear notch in the ambitus in ambulacrum III, and from L. eluvialis in the presence of a distinctly longer groove in ambulacrum III. Leymeriaster campestris sp. nov. is the first undoubted species of Campanian Leymeriaster known from northwest Europe.

Keywords

EchinoideaHemiasteridaeLate Cretaceousthe Netherlandsnew species
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 90 , Issue 2-3 , November 2011 , pp. 179 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2011

Footnotes

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In: Jagt, J.W.M., Jagt-Yazykova, E.A. & Schins, W.J.H. (eds): A tribute to the late Felder brothers – pioneers of Limburg geology and prehistoric archaeology.

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