PBDB Collection

Lonzée, Namur: Coniacian - Santonian, Belgium
collected 1880

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Craspedodon lonzeensis n. gen., n. sp. Dollo 1883		2 specimens

	Megalosauridae indet. (Fitzinger 1843)		1 specimen
	= Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890	Huene 1923
	= Megalosaurus lonzeensis n. sp. Dollo 1883	Huene 1926
	nomen dubium belonging to Coelurosauria
Reptilia - Plesiosauria

	Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835	Dollo 1909
	limb bones, vertebrae
Reptilia - Mosasauridae

	Hainosaurus lonzeensis n. sp. Dollo 1904	Bullard and Caldwell 2010
	nomen dubium belonging to Tylosaurinae
	Type - fragmentary premaxilla and a pair of caudal vertebrae

	Mosasaurus lonzeensis n. sp. Dollo 1904	Dollo 1909	1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines

	Glaucochelone lonzeensis n. gen., n. sp. Dollo 1909	Dollo 1909	1 individual

	Tomochelone lonzeensis n. gen., n. sp. Dollo 1909	Dollo 1909	1 individual
Pisces

	Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
	synonym of Osteichthyes
	"fish teeth"
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

	Ankistrorhynchus lonzeensis Casier 1964	Suárez and Cappetta 2004
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae

	Rhinobatos casieri n. sp. Herman 1977	Herman 1977
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae

	Inoceramus (Platyceramus) sp. Heinz 1932	Malchus et al. 1994
	many fragments

	Inoceramus (Heroceramus) cf. koeneni Mueller 1888	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen

	Inoceramus (Heroceramus) cf. hercules (Heinz 1932)	Malchus et al. 1994
	many fragments
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae

	Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835	Malchus et al. 1994	20 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Camptonectes virgatus (Nilsson 1827)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae

	Neithea regularis (Schlotheim 1813)	Malchus et al. 1994	50 specimens
	very common
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

	Limatula sp. Wood 1839	Malchus et al. 1994	10 specimens

	Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822	Malchus et al. 1994	3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae

	Syncyclonema haeggi Dhondt 1971	Malchus et al. 1994	20 specimens

	Syncyclonema nilsoni (Goldfuss 1835)	Malchus et al. 1994	2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

	Rastellum diluvianum (Linnaeus 1767)	Malchus et al. 1994	100 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

	Vultogryphaea laciniata (Nilson 1827)	Malchus et al. 1994	400 specimens
	very common

	Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sigmoidea (Reuss 1844)	Malchus et al. 1994	100 specimens

	Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) reticulata (Reuss 1846)	Malchus et al. 1994	400 specimens
	very common

	Gryphaeostrea canaliculata (Sowerby 1813)	Malchus et al. 1994	400 specimens
	original and current combination Chama canaliculata
	very common

	Pycnodonte (? Phygraea) proteus (Reuss 1848)	Malchus et al. 1994	50 specimens

	Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis (Lamarck 1806)	Malchus et al. 1994	400 specimens
	recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
	very common

	Hyotissa semiplana (Sowerby 1825)	Malchus et al. 1994	400 specimens
	very common
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae

	Cucullaea subglabra (Orbigny 1850)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae

	Glycymeris geinitzii (Orbigny 1850)	Malchus et al. 1994	2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

	Granocardium cf. productum (Sowerby 1832)	Malchus et al. 1994	2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

	? Mesocallista subovalis (Orbigny 1850)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen

	Cyprimeria discus (Matheron 1843)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae

	Caestocorbula ? angustata (Sowerby 1832)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

	? Lucina subnumismalis Orbigny 1850	Malchus et al. 1994	3 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

	Crassatella arcacea Roemer 1841	Malchus et al. 1994	2 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

	Vetericardiella ? benedeni (Mueller 1859)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae

	Eriphyla cf. lenticularis (Gabb 1864)	Malchus et al. 1994	1 specimen
	original and current combination Venus lenticularis
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae

	Pterotrigonia vaelsiensis (Boehm 1884)	Malchus et al. 1994	10 specimens
see common names

Geography

Country:	Belgium	State/province:	Namur
Coordinates:	50.6° North, 4.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	40.5° North, 5.9° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	173 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:	Coniacian - Santonian
Age range of interval:	89.80000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Glauconie de Lonzée
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: described as "Hervien" and "middle Senonian" or "lower Senonian", but now considered Santonian to lower Campanian. "Glauconie argileux" now = Glauconie de Lonzée

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	glauconitic argillaceous "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "glauconie argileux"
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	dispersed
Size of fossils:	mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Disassociated major elements:	all
Fragmentation:	occasional
Temporal resolution:	snapshot

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:	1880s

Metadata

Also known as:	Craspedodon type site, Huene 93
Database number:	51518
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Uhen, W. Kiessling	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Krause, M. Uhen
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-06-07 08:17:44	Last modified:	2022-03-08 14:47:24
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-06-07 08:17:44
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

13701.

ETE

L. Dollo. 1883. Note sur les restes de dinosauriens rencontrés dans le Crétacé supérieur de la Belgique [Note on the dinosaur remains found in the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium]. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2:205-221 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17047	ETE	W. Brinkmann. 1988. Zur Fundgeschichte und Systematik der Ornithopoden (Ornithischia, Reptilia) aus der Ober-Kreide von Europa [The history of discovery and systematics of the ornithopods (Ornithischia, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe]. Documenta Naturae 45:1-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32896		T. S. Bullard and M. W. Caldwell. 2010. Redescription and rediagnosis of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus pembinensis Nicholls, 1988, as Tylosaurus pembinensis (Nicholls, 1988). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):416-426 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
29875		L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
35280	ETE	P. Godefroit and F. Knoll. 2003. Late Triassic dinosaur teeth from southern Belgium. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2(1):3-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30945		J. Herman. 1977. Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale. Mémoires pour Servir a l'Explication des Cartes Géologiques et Minières de la Belgique 15:1-450 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]
16872	ETE	F. v. Huene. 1923. Carnivorous Saurischia in Europe since the Triassic. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 34:449-458 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14128	ETE	F. v. Huene. 1926. The carnivorous Saurischia in the Jura and Cretaceous formations, principally in Europe. Revista del Museo de La Plata 29:35-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599		E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62295		N. Malchus, V. Dhondt, and K.-A. Tröger. 1994. Upper Cretaceous bivalves from the Glauconie de Lonzee near Gembloux (SE Belgium). Sciences de la Terre 64:109-149 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
30785		M. E. Suárez and H. Cappetta. 2004. Sclerorhynchid teeth (Neoselachii, Sclerorhynchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the Quiriquina Formation, central Chile. Revista Geológica de Chile 31(1):89-103 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19380	ETE	D. B. Weishampel, D. Grigorescu, and D. B. Norman. 1991. The dinosaurs of Transylvania. National Geographic Research & Exploration 7(2):196-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518		D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]