Miste: Langhian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatis arcuatus Agassiz 1843
synonym of Aetobatus irregularis
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Squatinidae
Squatina subserrata
Squatina biforis Le Hon 1871
Chondrichthyes - Squalidae
Squalus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae
Hexanchus primigenius
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Galeorhinus sp. de Blainville and Prévost 1816
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinus distans Probst 1879
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Scoliodon taxandriae Leriche 1926
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Paragaleus sp. Budker 1935
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis molassica (Probst 1879)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Odontaspis vorax le Hon 1871
synonym of Carcharias acutissimus
Odontaspis acutissima (Agassiz 1843)
recombined as Carcharias acutissimus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus retroflexus (Agassiz 1838)
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Lamna catticua
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae
Cetorhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Isurus benedeni Le Hon 1871
recombined as Parotodus benedeni
Procarcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Vanbreenia trigonia n. gen., n. sp. Bianucci and Landini 2002
Bianucci and Landini 2002 1 individual
Eurhinodelphis cristatus (Du Bus 1872)
Van Deinse 1920
recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Miophoca cf. vetusta Zapfe 1937
Schneider and Heissig 2005 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Phocadae
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 6.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.2° North, 5.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Member:Aalten
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Miste bed...represents lower part of Aalten Member. Correlated with deposits in North Sea Basin. Langhian age from Schneider & Heissig (2005).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,phosphatic,shelly/skeletal,green silty,sandy "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Miste Bed, a sand with a variable silt and clay content...is represented by about 3 m of dark green glauconitic sand very rich in quartz and wuth shells and phospharite concentrations.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Zoological Museum Amsterdam
Metadata
Database number:45505
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:N. Pyenson, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-26 10:12:13 Last modified:2009-03-12 09:29:01
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-26 10:12:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29207. M. van den Bosch, M. C. Cadee, and A. W. Janssen. 1975. Lithostratigraphical and biostratigraphical subdivision of Tertiary deposits (Oligocene-Pliocene) in the Winterswijk-Almelo region (eastern part of the Netherlands). Scripta Geologica 29:1-167 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

11920 G. Bianucci and W. Landini. 2002. A new short-rostrum odontocete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the middle Miocene of the eastern Netherlands. Beaufortia 52(11):187-196 [M. Uhen/N. Pyenson/M. Uhen]
24932 S. Schneider and K. Heissig. 2005. An early seal (Mammalia, Pinnipedia) from the Middle Miocene (Langhian) of Miste (The Netherlands). Scripta Geologica 129:151-158 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
29779 A. B. Van Deinse. 1920. On fossil Cetacea and Pinnipedia in the Netherlands. Koninkiljke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Netherlands). Afdeeling Natuurkunde 29:1356-1354 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]