ENCI Quarry, Eocene: Priabonian, Netherlands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilotritus sp.
Goldin and Zvonok 2013
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= ? Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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van Vliet et al. 2019 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 5.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.5° North, 1.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium,gray,green sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: greenish grey, fine to medium-grained sands (‘Laagpakket van Klimmen’) | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: shallow-marine | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sint-Pietersberg | ||
| Database number: | 162500 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-09-26 14:52:26 | Last modified: | 2019-06-24 13:42:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-09-26 14:52:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52921. | H. J. van Vliet, O. Lambert, M. Bosselaers, A. Schulp, and J. Jagt. 2014. A new record of a Paleogene cetacean (Basilosauridae, aff. Basilotritus) from the St. Pietersberg, Maastricht, southeast Netherlands. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 246 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 61627 | H. J. van Vliet, O. Lambert, M. Bosselaers, A. S. Schulp, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2019. A Palaeogene cetacean from Maastricht, southern Limburg (The Netherlands). Cainozoic Research 19(1):95-113 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] |