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 | |
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Aquilofusus biformis true whelk | |
Bivalvia | |
Thyasira obtusa clam |