Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• JA: originally entered as Paleocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1975. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 3: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda. Geologica et Palaeontologica 9:141-171 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3118: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Solariella vinceti snail | |
Collonia crenulata snail | |
Homalopoma montense snail | |
Calyptraea montensis slipper shell | |
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis, "Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
"Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail | |
Turritella herminae turret shell
Torquesia coemansi turret shell | |
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail | |
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Mitra omalii mitre shell | |
Buccinidae "montensis" n. gen., "Kelletia montis" = Siphonalia (Kelletia)
Buccinidae "montensis" n. gen. Rafinesque 1815 true whelk originally entered as "Buccinidae? n. gen. montensis"
"Kelletia montis" = Siphonalia (Kelletia) true whelk | |
Euspira briarti moon snail | |
Circulus simplex snail | |
Architectonica montensis sundial | |
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia lamellosa clam | |
Glycymeris corneti clam | |
Limopsis minuscula clam | |
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Ostrea montensis oyster | |
Arcoperna gibbosula mussel | |
Fimbria montensis, Parvilucina nannus, Monitilora duponti, Miltha montensis, Miltha solvayi, Callucina corneti, Loripes lemonnieri, Here briarti
Fimbria montensis clam
Parvilucina nannus clam
Monitilora duponti clam
Miltha montensis clam
Miltha solvayi clam
Callucina corneti clam
Loripes lemonnieri clam
Here briarti clam | |
Callista duponti venus clam
Callista montensis Cossmann 1908 venus clam | |
"Felaniella ? vincenti" = Diplodonta
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Loxocardium tenuitesta cockle
Trachycardium heinzelini cockle | |
Arcopagia montensis tellin clam | |
Gari duponti clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium montense Briart and Cornet 1889 tusk shell |