Deurne (Fort 1), Deurne Sand (Miocene of Belgium)

Where: Antwerpen, Belgium (51.2° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 3.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Deurne Sand Member (Diest Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; sandstone

• inner neritic, normal salinity lagoon, low-energy

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: O. Lambert. 2005. Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium). Geodiversitas 27(3):443-497 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66960: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
"Monotherium aberratum" = Frisiphoca aberratum6, "Prophoca proxima" = Leptophoca proxima6
"Monotherium aberratum" = Frisiphoca aberratum6 Vanden Broeck 1874 seal
"Prophoca proxima" = Leptophoca proxima6 Van Beneden 1876 seal
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
"Alachterium cretsii" = Ontocetus8, Trichecodon koninckii8
"Alachterium cretsii" = Ontocetus8 walrus
Trichecodon koninckii8 Van Beneden 1871 walrus
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Cetorhynchus atavus n. sp.1 Abel 1905 beaked whale
Ziphirostrum marginatum n. sp.3 Du Bus 1868 beaked whale
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
"Physeterula dubusii n. gen. n. sp." = Physeterula dubusi4, "Palaeophoca nysti" = Paleophoca6
"Physeterula dubusii n. gen. n. sp." = Physeterula dubusi4 Van Beneden 1877 sperm whale
"Palaeophoca nysti" = Paleophoca6 sperm whale
 Cetacea -
"Plesiocetus brialmonti" = Plesiocetus brialmontii2, Plesiocetus dubius6, "Heterocetus affinis n. sp." = Parietobalaena affinis9
"Plesiocetus brialmonti" = Plesiocetus brialmontii2 Van Beneden 1880 whale
Plesiocetus dubius6 Van Beneden 1872 whale
"Heterocetus affinis n. sp." = Parietobalaena affinis9 Van Beneden and Gervais 1868 whale
 Cetacea - Tranatocetidae
"Plesiocetus hupschi" = Plesiocetopsis hupschii6
"Plesiocetus hupschi" = Plesiocetopsis hupschii6 Van Beneden 1859 whale
 Cetacea -
"Amphicetus rotundus n. sp." = Aglaocetus rotundus9, Amphicetus verus6, Amphicetus later6, Plesiocetus burtinii n. sp.7
"Amphicetus rotundus n. sp." = Aglaocetus rotundus9 Van Beneden 1880 whale
Amphicetus verus6 Van Beneden 1880 whale
Amphicetus later6 Van Beneden 1880 whale
Plesiocetus burtinii n. sp.7 Van Beneden 1859 whale
 Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Herpetocetus scaldiensis n. sp.6 Van Beneden 1872 whale
Dinophyceae
 Peridiniales - Deflandreaceae
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