Edegem (Miocene to of Belgium)

Where: Antwerpen, Belgium (51.2° N, 4.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Edegem Sands Member (Berchem Formation), Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Latest Aquitanian to early Burdigalian. Age after Louwye et al. 2000 and Louwye 2005.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Louwye, J. De Coninck, and J. Verniers. 2000. Shallow marine lower and middle Miocene deposits at the southern margin of the North Sea Basin (northern Belgium): dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy and depositional history. Geological Magazine 137(4):381-394 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66961: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.10.2006, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pseudamussium edegemense2 Glibert 1945 scallop
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Placoziphius duboisii n. gen. n. sp.4 Van Beneden 1869 sperm whale
 Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Eurhinodelphis cocheteuxi3 Du Bus 1867 toothed whale