Anvers, Lillo Formation: Piacenzian, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros leptorhinus
Cuvier 1822
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Misonne 1958 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenidae
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Balaena belgica n. sp.
Abel 1941
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Abel 1941 | 1 specimen | |||||
= Eubalaena ianitrix
Bisconti et al. 2017
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Bisconti et al. 2017 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Trichechus antverpiensis
Rutten 1907
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Kohno and Ray 2008 | ||||||
synonym of Ontocetus emmonsi | |||||||
Alachtherium antwerpiensis
Hasse 1909
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Kohno and Ray 2008 | ||||||
synonym of Ontocetus emmonsi | |||||||
Alachtherium cretsii
(Du Bus 1867)
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Du Bus 1867 | ||||||
synonym of Ontocetus emmonsi | |||||||
Mammalia
- Eutriconodonta
- Gobiconodontidae
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Trichechodon koninckii
Kusuhashi et al. 2016
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Kohno and Ray 2008 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Belgium | State/province: | Antwerpen |
Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 4.4° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.3° North, 4.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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 | ||
Age estimate: | 3.2 to 2.8 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Lillo | Member: | Kruisschans Sands | ||
Stratigraphy comments: late Pliocene
The Kruisschans Sand Member has been dated to 3.2–2.8 Ma based on dinoflagellate cyst and sequence stratigraphy [57]. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | offshore indet. |
Geology comments: warm-temperate conditions, open waters, occasional cooling events, shoaling |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 66958 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-10-30 07:58:52 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 15:38:36 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-10-30 07:58:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
19086. | O. Lambert. 2006. Lambert's 2006 opinions. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
25565 | O. Abel. 1941. Vorlaufige Mitteilungen über die Revision der fossilen Mystacoceten aus dem Tertiar Belgiens. Bulletin du Museum Royal d'Historie Naturelles du Belgique 17(32):1-29 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] | |
15050 | M. Bisconti. 2003. Evolutionary history of Balaenidae. Craniium 20(1):9-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
62592 | M. Bisconti, O. Lambert, and M. Bosselaers. 2017. Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species. PeerJ 5:e3464 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12761 | B. Du Bus. 1867. Sur quelques mammiferes du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 24:562-577 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
26222 | N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
19087 | S. Louwye. 2002. Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the upper Miocene Deurne Sands (Diest Formation) of northern Belgium, southern North Sea Basin. Geological Journal 37:55-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
55050 | F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
19106 | X. Misonne. 1958. Faune du Tertiare et du Pleistocene inferieur de Belgique (Oiseaux et mammiferes) Donnees paleontologiques. Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Bulletin 34(5):1-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |