Langenboom, Oosterhout Formation, Unit C: Piacenzian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia semistriata
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands State/province:Noord-Brabant
Coordinates: 51.7° North, 5.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.8° North, 5.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oosterhout Member:Unit C
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,glauconitic,brown,green poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: homogenous, less compact, greenish grey, slightly silty, fine-grained, well-sorted quartz sand with some fine-grained, well-sorted quartz sand with some fine-grained light and darg green glauconite, lacking carbonate and containing very little mica
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:89446
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-05-20 08:17:39 Last modified:2009-05-20 11:17:39
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-20 08:17:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29366. E. Wijnker, T. J. Bor, F. P. Wesselingh, D. K. Munsterman, H. Brinkhuis, A. W. Burger, H. B. Vonhof, K. Post, K. Hoedemakers, A. C. Janse, and N. Taverne. 2008. Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 87(2):165-180 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]