Where: Campine Area, Belgium (51.3° N, 4.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 4.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kasterlee Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, massive, muddy sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: core, chemical, hydroflouric,
Primary reference: S. Louwye and S. De Schepper. 2010. The Miocene–Pliocene hiatus in the southern North Sea Basin (northern Belgium) revealed by dinoflagellate cysts. Geological Magazine 147(5):760-776 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122028: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 15.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Dinophyceae | |
Amiculosphaera umbraculum, Operculodinium sp., ? Operculodinium eirikianum, Operculodinium tegillatum, Operculodinium longispinigerum, Operculodinium centrocarpum, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, Achomosphaera andalousiensis, ? Corrudinium labradori
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Selenopemphix armageddonensis, Selenopemphix brevispinosa, Selenopemphix dionaeacysta, Selenopemphix nephroides
Selenopemphix dionaeacysta Head et al. 1989
Selenopemphix nephroides Benedek 1972 | |