Sittard-Geleen, Limburg, Netherlandsi

Regional Level Types
Sittard-Geleen	Municipality
Limburg	Province
Netherlands	Country

Sittard-Geleen (Dutch: [ˈsɪtɑrt xəˈleːn]; Limburgish: Zittert-Gelaen [ˈzɪtəʀt çəˈlɛːn]) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born.

The combined municipality is the second most populated municipality in Limburg (after Maastricht).

The highway connecting the centres of Sittard and Geleen, the Rijkswegboulevard, has been rebuilt to be a main route for cycling and walking. The cycling and walking provision is both generous and continuous. Side road junctions, or crossroads, are made 'subordinate'. The carriageways have been narrowed to one 3m lane in each direction. Parking places have been made, in small groups, at the side of the carriageways. These are made to be 'not easy to use for larger vehicles' and so the road centre is marked as a place for delivery vehicles to stop. Information supplied by the highway engineers: Büro für Stadt und Verkehr (BSV), Aachen, Germany.

To the west, Sittard-Geleen borders on Belgium, while to the east, it borders on Germany.

Fossils

There are 4 fossil localities from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences	62
Youngest Fossil Listed	2.59 Ma (Pleistocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed	315 Ma (Carboniferous)
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Accepted Name Hierarchy Age Beloptera genus Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Belemnitida : Passaloteuthidae : Beloptera 66 - 61.6 Ma Paleocene Azolla genus Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Salviniales : Salviniaceae : Azolla 66 - 2.588 Ma Cenozoic Bacutriletes genus Plantae : Bacutriletes 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous Platytrochus bataviae species Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : Platytrochus : Platytrochus bataviae 66 - 61.6 Ma Paleocene Placosmilia limburgica species Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Montlivaltiidae : Placosmilia : Placosmilia limburgica 66 - 61.6 Ma Paleocene Caryophyllia crassicosta species Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : Caryophyllia : Caryophyllia crassicosta 66 - 61.6 Ma Paleocene Breyeria vrankeni species Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Palaeodictyoptera : Breyeriidae : Breyeria : Breyeria vrankeni 314.6 - 314.6 Ma Carboniferous Tenellisporites genus Tenellisporites 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous Trileites genus Trileites 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous Striatriletes genus Striatriletes 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous Trileites murrayi species Trileites : Trileites murrayi 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous Ariadnaesporites genus Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Salviniales : Salviniaceae : Ariadnaesporites 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous Triletes genus Plantae : Pteridophyta : Pteridopsida : Triletes 145 - 66 Ma Cretaceous Verrutriletes genus Plantae : Verrutriletes 86.3 - 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
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Other Databases

Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittard-Geleen
Wikidata ID:	Q9781
GeoNames ID:	6544255

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