Kessel: Langhian - Serravallian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Archaeoziphius microglenoideus n. gen., n. sp. Lambert and Louwye 2006
Lambert and Louwye 2006 2 specimens
Aporotus recurvirostris Du Bus 1868
Lambert 2005 2 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Orycterocetus crocodilinus Cope 1867
Lambert 2008 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Xiphiacetus cristatus (Du Bus 1872)
2 specimens
Priscodelphinus cristatus Du Bus 1872
Du Bus 1872
recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus
Mammalia - Cetacea
Isocetus depauwii Van Beneden and Gervais 1868
Van Beneden 1880
corrected as Isocetus depauwi
Parietobalaena campiniana n. sp. Bisconti et al. 2013
Bisconti et al. 2013 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium State/province:Nijlen
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 4.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° North, 3.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian - Serravallian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Berchem Member:Antwerpen Sands
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Louwye et al. 2000.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: neritic, energetic, shallowed upwards
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:53679
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-13 13:44:37 Last modified:2023-10-17 12:05:04
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-13 13:44:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14479. O. Lambert. 2005. Review of the Miocene long-snouted dolphin Priscodelphinus cristatus Du Bus, 1872 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) and phylogeny among eurhinodelphinids. Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre 75:211-235 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

44426 M. Bisconti, O. Lambert, and M. Bosselaers. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Isocetus depauwi (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic 'cetothere' mysticetes. Palaeontology 56(1):95-127 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12768 B. Du Bus. 1872. Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Letteres et des Beaux-Arts 34:491-509 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15538 O. Lambert. 2005. Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium). Geodiversitas 27(3):443-497 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
30890 O. Lambert. 2008. Sperm whales from the Miocene of the North Sea: a re-appraisal. Bulletin del'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 78:277-316 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
86117 O. Lambert, M. Bosselaers, and S. Louwye. 2023. Past beaked whale diversity in the North Sea: reappraisal through a new Miocene record and biostratigraphic analyses. Geologica Belgica 26(3-4):117-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
17221 O. Lambert and S. Louwye. 2006. Archaeoziphius microglenoideus, a new primitive beaked whale (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the middle Miocene of Belgium. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):182-191 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
29135 S. Louwye. 2005. The Early and Middle Miocene transgression at the southern border of the North Sea Basin (northern Belgium). Geological Journal 40:441-456 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12641 P. J. Van Beneden. 1880. Les mysticetes a courts fanons des sables des environs d'anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1880:11-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]