Anvers, Berchem Fm., Antwerp Sands: Langhian - Serravallian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Prophoca rousseaui Van Beneden 1876
Ray 1976
Prophoca proxima Van Beneden 1876
Ray 1976
recombined as Leptophoca proxima
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodon informal sp. A Grateloup 1840
Rothausen 1968
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Priscodelphinus morckhoviensis n. sp. Du Bus 1872
Du Bus 1872
recombined as Schizodelphis morckhoviensis
Mammalia - Cetacea
Plesiocetus brialmonti Van Beneden 1880
Misonne 1958
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti
Cetotherium dubium n. sp. Van Beneden 1872
Van Beneden 1872
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti
Burtinopsis minutus Van Beneden 1880
Misonne 1958
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti
Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Plesiocetus hupschii Van Beneden 1859
Misonne 1958
recombined as Plesiocetopsis hupschii
Mammalia - Cetacea
Amphicetus verus Van Beneden 1880
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]