Kallo Well 292.50-m. Level (Eocene of Belgium)

Where: Vlaanderen, Belgium (51.3° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Clays of Ypres Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal claystone

• "grey solid clay, containing numerous pelecypod valves"

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: W. Willems. 1974. An aberrant Uvigerina from the Lower Eocene of Belgium. Micropaleontology 20(4):478-479 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94039: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Dentalina colei Cushman and Dusenbury 1934
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina gravida Terquem 1878
Guttulina lactea Walker and Jacob 1798
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalina acuta
subspecies ypresiensis
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
  - Spiroplectamminidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
 Asterigerinacea - Asterigerinidae
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata -
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae