Hoogdonk Sandpit (Miocene of Netherlands)

Also known as Liessel

Where: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (51.4° N, 5.8° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 4.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Diessen Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• The sample belongs to the late Tortonian (Late Miocene) SNSM14 Zone defined in the Netherlands (Munsterman & Brinkhuis, 2004), which is equivalent to the Hystrichosphaeropsis obscura biozone of Denmark (Dybkjær & Piasecki, 2010), and the DN9 Zone of the eastern USA and Germany (De Verteuil & Norris, 1996; Köthe, 2012), dated to ca 8.8–7.6 Ma (Dybkjær & Piasecki, 2010).

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: I. A. Koretsky and A. M. M. Peters. 2008. Batavipusa (Carnivora, Phocidae, Phocinae): a new genus from the eastern shore of the North Atlantic Ocean (Miocene seals of the Netherlands, part II). Deinsea 12:53-62 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94930: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Persufflatius renefraaijeni n. gen. n. sp.2 Bosselaers and Munsterman 2022 whale
Holotype: MAB 010293
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Archaebalaenoptera liesselensis n. sp.1 Bisconti et al. 2020 rorqual
 Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Metopocetus hunteri n. sp.3 Marx et al. 2016 whale
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Batavipusa neerlandica n. gen. n. sp.
Batavipusa neerlandica n. gen. n. sp. Koretsky and Peters 2008 seal