Anvers, Berchem Fm., Antwerp Sands: Langhian - Serravallian, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Phocidae
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Prophoca rousseaui
Van Beneden 1876
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Ray 1976 | ||||||
Prophoca proxima
Van Beneden 1876
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Ray 1976 | ||||||
recombined as Leptophoca proxima | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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Squalodon informal sp. A
Grateloup 1840
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Rothausen 1968 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eurhinodelphinidae
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Priscodelphinus morckhoviensis n. sp.
Du Bus 1872
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Du Bus 1872 | ||||||
recombined as Schizodelphis morckhoviensis | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Plesiocetus brialmonti
Van Beneden 1880
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Misonne 1958 | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti | |||||||
Cetotherium dubium n. sp.
Van Beneden 1872
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Van Beneden 1872 | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti | |||||||
Burtinopsis minutus
Van Beneden 1880
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Misonne 1958 | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Tranatocetidae
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Plesiocetus hupschii
Van Beneden 1859
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Misonne 1958 | ||||||
recombined as Plesiocetopsis hupschii | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Amphicetus verus
Van Beneden 1880
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Misonne 1958 | ||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Amphicetus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Belgium |
Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 4.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 51.4° North, 3.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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: | Antwerp Sands | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: age after Louwye et al. 2000, p. 387. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Geology comments: neritic, energetic, shallowed upwards |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 59123 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-03-14 11:21:45 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 14:47:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-03-14 11:21:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12761. | B. Du Bus. 1867. Sur quelques mammiferes du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 24:562-577 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
29701 | S. Louwye, J. De Coninck, and J. Verniers. 1999. Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy and depositional history of Miocene and Lower Pliocene formations in northern Belgium (southern North Sea Basin). Geologie en Mijinbouw 78:31-46 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
19106 | X. Misonne. 1958. Faune du Tertiare et du Pleistocene inferieur de Belgique (Oiseaux et mammiferes) Donnees paleontologiques. Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Bulletin 34(5):1-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
15419 | C. E. Ray. 1976. Phoca wymani and other Tertiary seals (Mammalia: Phocidae) described from the eastern seaboard of North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 28:1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12099 | K. Rothausen. 1968. Die systematische Stellung der europäischen Squalodontidae (Odontoceti, Mamm.). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 42(1-2):83-104 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12326 | P. J. Van Beneden. 1872. Les Baleines fossiles d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts 34:6-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |