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Bryozoan Species from Southern Limburg, the Netherlands
1 Introduction
When I found dozens of Bryozoan species in the Curfs
and ENCI quarries during my fieldstudy in Southern Limburg in 1998,
I wanted to identify them to the species level. An inventory of
the literature learned that there was no comprehensive study of
the Bryozoans in the Maastricht area. Although E. Voigt from Hamburg
did much research on Bryozoa in this area, an overview is lacking.
The Natural History Museum in Maastricht did not even have a collection
of identified Bryozoa. I felt the need to make an inventory of the
species described in the literature, because I wanted to identify
the species I found. This can be used to aid further research on
the Bryozoa in the Maastricht area. It can be very interesting to
do further research on the biostratigraphy of the Bryozoa and the
relation to the K/T boundary. Detailed biostratigraphic research
in the Maastricht area has been done only by R. Lagaaij in the ENCI
quarry in 1951.
An attempt was made to make a complete inventory
of the Bryozoan species possibly present in the Maastricht area
in Southern Limburg, the Netherlands. All the species and synonyms
found in the literature are listed in the "Alphabetical Species
and synonym list". The listed Bryozoa are known from upper Cretaceous
and lower Paleocene sediments in Northern Europe, but not all the
species listed are known from the Maastricht area. The species can
be accessed from both the alphabetical list and the systematic list
of families.
2 The
Phylum "Bryozoa"
3 Bryozoa,
systematic
4 Alphabetical
Species and synonym list
5 Description
of the species
6 Images
from the literature and collections
7
References
8
Acknowledgments
Other reports:
© 1999
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