Pit De Griete: Tortonian, Netherlands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Balaenopteroidea indet.
Gray 1868
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Post and Reumer 2016 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Cetotheriidae indet.
(Brandt 1872)
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Post and Reumer 2016 | |||||||||
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Tranatocetus maregermanicum n. sp.
Marx et al. 2019
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Marx et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Nehalaennia devossi n. gen., n. sp.
Bisconti et al. 2019
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Bisconti et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| NMR 999100014035 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Bisconti et al. 2019 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Ziphiidae indet.
Gray 1850
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Post and Reumer 2016 | |||||||||
| Post & Reumer 2016; Figure 6 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Pontoporiidae
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Scaldiporia vandokkumi n. gen., n. sp.
Post et al. 2017
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Dermochelyidae
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Psephophorus polygonus
von Meyer 1847
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Peters et al. 2019 | |||||||||
| NMR 9988–0661, partial carapace | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Coordinates: | 51.4° North, 3.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.6° North, 3.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Breda | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Dinoflagellate cysts determined the matrix to be of late Tortonian age 8.7–8.1 Ma (Bisconti et al 2019). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic,gray,blue sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: The glauconitic blue-grey sandstone matrix always contains skeletal elements from one and the same species of mysticete (skull and/or mandibles and/or forearm parts and/or parts of the vertebral columns [Fig. 5]) or odontocete (skull with or without mandible, and skeletal parts). | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Westerschelde 6D | ||
| Database number: | 190169 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | M. Uhen, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-12-01 14:40:13 | Last modified: | 2019-05-22 11:22:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-12-01 14:40:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63485. | K. Post, S. Louywe, and O. Lambert. 2017. Scaldiporia vandokkumi, a new pontoporiid (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene to earliest Pliocene of the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands). PeerJ 5::e3991 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 61659 | M. Bisconti, D. K. Munsterman, and K. Post. 2019. A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti). PeerJ 7(e6915):1-54 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen] | |
| 29738 | F. G. Marx, K. Post, M. Bosselaers and D. K. Munsterman. 2019. A large Late Miocene cetotheriid (Cetacea, Mysticeti) from the Netherlands clarifies the status of Tranatocetidae. PeerJ 7:e6426 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 72450 | M. E. Peters, M. E. J. Bosselaers, K. Post and J. W. F. Reumer. 2019. A Miocene leatherback turtle from the Westerschelde (The Netherlands) with possible cetacean bite marks: identification, taphonomy and cladistics. Cainozoic Research 19(2):121-133 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 63984 | K. Post and J. W. F. Reumer. 2016. History and future of paleontological surveys in the Westerschelde Estuary (Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands). Deinsea 16:1-9 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |