E3 tunnel, river Scheldt, Antwerp (Oligocene of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (51.2° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brinkheurne Member, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Serpula septaria-Ancistrosyrinx volgeri Assemblage zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1965

• Repository: Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie (National Museum of Geology and Mineralogy, indicated as RGM).

Primary reference: M. van den Bosch, M. C. Cadee, and A. W. Janssen. 1975. Lithostratigraphical and biostratigraphical subdivision of Tertiary deposits (Oligocene-Pliocene) in the Winterswijk-Almelo region (eastern part of the Netherlands). Scripta Geologica 29:1-167 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179941: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae