Westerschelde, Eocene: Bartonian, Netherlands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Pachycetus sp.
Van Beneden 1883
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van Vliet et al. 2024 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
NMR-16442 | ||||||||||
Pachycetus paulsonii
(Brandt 1873)
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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] |