Borgerhout, Miocene: Tortonian - Messinian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Hoplocetus borgerhoutensis n. sp. Du Bus 1872
Du Bus 1872
Mammalia - Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
Mesocetus longifrons
Mesocetus longirostris n. sp. Van Beneden 1880
Capellini 1876
Mesocetus pinguis n. sp. Van Beneden 1880
Van Beneden 1880
nomen dubium belonging to Mesocetus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Prophoca proxima Van Beneden 1876
Dollo 1909
recombined as Leptophoca proxima
Monotherium aberratum Vanden Broeck 1874
recombined as Frisiphoca aberratum
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium State/province:Antwerpen
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 4.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° North, 3.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sables d'Anvers
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Dewaele et al., 2018
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:67022
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-11-03 07:50:17 Last modified:2018-05-14 13:39:13
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-03 07:50:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

12642 G. Capellini. 1876. Sulle balene fossili toscane. Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei 3:9-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
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]
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]
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]
17274 O. Hampe. 2006. Middle/late Miocene hoplocetine sperm whale remains (Odontoceti: Physeteridae) of North Germany with an emended clasification of Hoplocetinae. Fossil Record 9(1):61-86 [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]