Vinalmont (Paleocene of Belgium)

Where: Liege, Belgium (50.6° N, 5.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. C. Groessens - van Dyck . 1984. Les tortues du Paleocene continental de Hainin et Vinalmont (Belqique). Studia Geologica Salmanticensia, volumen especial 1 (Studia Palaeocheloniologica I) 1:133-139 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193460: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 18.05.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Macrobaenidae
cf. Gallica sp.
cf. Gallica sp. Pérez-García 2020 turtle
shell fragments
 Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet.
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839 turtle
shell fragments
 Testudinata - Baenidae
? Baenidae indet.
? Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
carapace fragments