Maret (Paleocene of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.7° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 2.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orp Sand Member (Heers Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)

• NP4-5

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated, muddy sandstone and marl

• Bioturbated clayey sand with large marl chunks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Smith and R. Smith. 2003. Terrestrial mammals as biostratigraphic indicators in upper Paleocene-lower Eocene marine deposits of the southern North Sea Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:513-520 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68431: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.01.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Macroscelidea - Adapisoricidae
Adapisorex sp. Lemoine 1883 elephant shrew
IRSNB M2018
 Macroscelidea - Louisinidae
Berrulestes sp.1 Hooker and Russell 2012 elephant shrew
IRSNB M2019
 Theriamorpha - Adapisoriculidae
Bustylus germanicus1 Russell 1964 eutherian
IRSNB M2017
Aves
 Aves -
Aves "indet. species A"2 bird
IRSNB Av 217
 Ralliformes - Ralloidae
"cf. Ralloidea indet." = Ralloidae2
"cf. Ralloidea indet." = Ralloidae2 Rafinesque 1815 bird
IRSNB Av 216
 Gastornithiformes - Gastornithidae
Gastornis sp.2 Hébert 1855 bird
IRSNB Av 213
 Neornithes - Lithornithidae
cf. Lithornithidae indet.2 Houde 1988 bird
IRSNB Av 214 and 215