Zemst sluice excavation, Brussells-Rupel canal: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Belgium
collected by Canal workers, personnel of Geological Survey 1965-1973
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Insecta
- Diptera
- Calliphoridae
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Protophormia terraenovae
(Robineau-Desvoidy 1830)
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| puparia P2205 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas ? primigenius
Blumenbach 1799
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| recombined as Mammuthus primigenius | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Coelodonta ? antiquitatis
(Blumenbach 1799)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison priscus
(Bojanus 1827)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Belgium |
| Coordinates: | 51.0° North, 4.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.0° North, 4.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Late Eemian |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",coarse unlithified conglomeratic sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: Coarse and cross-bedded gravelly sands ("gravier de base grossier") | |||
| Environment: | coarse channel fill | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Geology comments: Gravels deposited in large and swiftly running river | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | MfN | ||
| Collectors: | Canal workers, personnel of Geological Survey | Collection dates: | 1965-1973 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Laboratory of Paleontology at Gent and Zoological Museum of the Humboldt University (Berlin). Canal excavations occurred between 1965 and 1975. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 140370 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-08 13:18:35 | Last modified: | 2014-08-07 11:58:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-08 13:18:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45424. | A. Gautier and H. Schumann. 1973. Puparia of the subarctic or black blowfly Protophormia terraenovae (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) in a skull of late Eemian(?) bison at Zemst, Brabant (Belgium). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 14:119-125 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |