Westerschelde, Eocene: Bartonian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
1 specimen
Pachycetus sp. Van Beneden 1883
van Vliet et al. 2024 1 specimen
NMR-16442
Pachycetus paulsonii (Brandt 1873)
Gingerich et al. 2022 1 specimen
NMR 991–3404 reidentified from ref 55107
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 3.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.3° North, 0.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maldegem Member:Onderdijke
Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphic information from van Vliet et al 2024
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Natural History Museum, Rotterdam
Metadata
Database number:168386
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-04-20 15:34:35 Last modified:2024-01-29 10:08:23
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-20 15:34:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55107. S. Schouten. 2011. De wervels van Basilosauridae: een overzicht van en een vergelijking met raadselachtige vondsten uit de Noordzee. Cranium 28(2):17-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

82775 P. D. Gingerich, A. Amane, and S. Zouhri. 2022. Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. PLoS One 17(10):e0276110 [M. Uhen/E. Medeiros/M. Uhen]
82371 H. J. van Vliet, M. Bosselaers, S. Schouten and K. Post. 2022. Eocene cetaceans from the Belgian-Dutch coastal waters. Deinsea 20:1-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
87403 H. J. van Vliet, M. E. J. Bosselaers, D. K. Munsterman, M. L. Dijkshoorn, J. J. Groen and K. Post. 2024. A vertebra of a small species of Pachycetus from the North Sea and its inner structure and vascularity compared with other basilosaurid vertebrae from the same site. PeerJ 12(e16541):1-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]