Lars Barten

• Bachelor of Science
• Master student Conservation & Restoration Ecology at Radboud University

REMARKABLE LATE CRETACEOUS FOSSILS FROM LIÈGE-LIMBURG Part 56. Two interesting teleost fishes in the spotlight. Over recent years, teleost fish material from the Upper Cretaceous of Liège-Limburg has been receiving more attention, yet (semi-) articulated and associated skeletons are rarely encountered. Here, two remarkable and partially articu...

The Sint-Pietersberg area, south of Maastricht (province of Limburg, the Netherlands), is the birthplace of mosasaurs; marine squamate lizards of latest Cretaceous age. Two partial skulls, recovered from subterranean galleries at Sint-Pieters-berg in 1764 and 1778, respectively, made scientists reflect on the possibility that organisms could actual...

Summary REMAINS OF JUVENILE MOSASAURS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF LIÈGE-LIMBURG AND POTENTIAL CLUES FOR PREDATION ON THESE ANIMALS. The Maastrichtian limestone deposits of Liège-Limburg (Maastrichtian type area) are famous for their yield of mosasaur remains - large carnivorous marine reptiles that were at the top of the food chain. Bones an...

Abstract for the 7th triennial Mosasaur Meeting at Maastricht, about the gut contents of a subadult individual of Mosasaurus hoffmanni from the Maastrichtian type area

Abstract about articulated and associated remains of cartilaginous fish from the Maastrichtian type area, and in particular about a partial dentition of Rhombodus binkhorsti.

Poster presentation at The 175th Anniversary of the Maastrichtian Celebratory Meeting in Maastricht, September 8-11, 2024

Abstract of the poster about Anomoeodus from the Maastrichtian type area.

REMARKABLE LATE CRETACEOUS FOSSILS FROM LIÈGE-LIMBURG Part 54. Remains of the mysterious teleost fish Cylindracanthus. Remains of the enigmatic teleost fish Cylindracanthus, originating from the upper Maastrichtian (Lanaye to Emael members) of the Maastrichtian type area (south-east Netherlands, north-east Belgium), are described and illustrated....

Dutch article about placoderms from the Devonian of the Eifel mountains in Germany. Records of placoderms from the Eifel are discussed, and a partial headshield of an antiarch placoderm is depicted and described.

REMARKABLE LATE CRETACEOUS FOSSILS FROM LIÈGE-LIMBURG Part 42. A squid with bite marks A single rostrum of the belemnitellid coleoid Belemnitella junior Nowak, 1913, presumably from interval 6 of the Vijlen Member (Gulpen Formation; upper lower Maastrichtian) as exposed at the Kreco quarry (Haccourt, Liège), has a dense cover of episkeletozoans...

Woolly mammoths and mosasaurs side-by-side in the Saint Peters mountain, Maastricht. During excavation and subsequent preparation at the Science Lab of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, a number of fossils were recovered amongst the skeletal remains of a late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) mosasaurid reptile that can only have made their w...

A Dutch article describing a partial skeleton of Mosasaurus hoffmanni found in the Emael Member (Maastricht Formation) of the former ENCI quarry in Maastricht (the Netherlands). The specimen includes a relatively complete skull and neck, front and hind flippers, elements of the pelvic girdle and tail sections, but was damaged considerably by severa...

Dutch article about a subadult specimen of Mosasaurus hoffmanni from the Maastrichtian type area (the Netherlands), nicknamed mosasaur 'Lars'.

The first isolated and well-preserved phalanx (autopodial element) of a generically and specifically indeterminate (probably xenopsarian) plesiosaur from the Maastrichtian type area (south-east Netherlands) is described and illustrated. Morphological features of this bone, such as the articular subchondral surfaces, allow it to be distinguished fro...