N.Jb. Geol. Paliiont. Mh. Stuttgart, Juni 1997 A new late Maastrichtian hadrosaurid dinosaur record from northeast Belgium By Eric W. A. Mulder, Denekamp, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Ittervoort, John W. M. Jagt, Maastricht and Hans H. G. Peeters, Maastricht With 3 figures in the text MULDER, E. W. A., KUYPERS, M. M. M.,JAGT, J. W. M. & PEETERS, H. H. G. (1997): A new late Maastrichtian hadrosaurid dinosaur record from northeast Belgium. - N. Jb. Geol. Paliiont. Mh., 1997 (6): 339-347; Stuttgart. Abstract: The distal portion of a well-preserved left metatarsal III of an ornithopod, most probably hadrosaurid, dinosaur is recorded from the lower Emael Member (Maastricht Formation, late Maastrichtian, Belemnitella junior Zone of authors), as exposed at the Ankerpoort-Marnebel quarry near Eben Emael (Liege, northeast Belgium). Previous dinosaur records from the Maastrichtian type area were stratigraphically rather poorly documented within the Maastricht Formation or confined to the basal Meerssen Member (Maastricht Formation), also of late Maastrichtian age. Zusammenfassung: Ein dis tales Fragment eines guterhaltenen linken Metatarsale III eines ornithopoden (hochstwahrscheinlich hadrosauriden) Dinosauriers aus dem unteren Teil der Emael-Kreide (Maastricht Formation, Ober Maastricht, Belemnitella junior Zone), des Ankerpoort-Marnebel-Steinbruchs bei Eben Emael (Liittich, NO Belgien) wird beschrieben. Friihere Dinosaurier-Meldungen aus dem Typusgebiet des Maastricht waren entweder stratigraphisch innerhalb der Maastricht-Formation schlecht dokumentiert oder beschriinktauf den untersten Teil der Meerssen-Kreide, ebenfalls Ober-Maastricht. Introduction Strata of late Maastrichtian age as exposed in the type area of that stage (southeast Netherlands, northeast Belgium; Fig. 1) are renowned worldwide for their well-preserved faunas of large marine reptiles, such as mosasaurid lizards and cheloniid turtles. In recent years, a renewed interest in the verte­ brate faunas from these strata has become apparent. There are numerous new records of teleost and selachian fishes in particular but also of elasmosaurid plesiosaurs and eusuchian crocodiles (MULDER in prep.). Not only will studies under way describe unexpectedly diverse assemblages, they are also based on stratigraphically well-documented material. Earlier papers (i. e. published prior to the 1970s) often suffer from this lack of stratigraphic detail. DOI:10.1127/njgpm/1997/1997/339 (c) 2017 www.schweizerbart.com 0028-3630/97/1997- 0339 $ 2.25 © 1997 E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 0-70176 Stuttgart .