Hoogdonk Sandpit: Tortonian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Persufflatius renefraaijeni n. gen., n. sp. Bosselaers and Munsterman 2022
Bosselaers and Munsterman 2022 1 specimen
Holotype: MAB 010293
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Archaebalaenoptera liesselensis n. sp. Bisconti et al. 2020
Bisconti et al. 2020 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Metopocetus hunteri n. sp. Marx et al. 2016
Marx et al. 2016 1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Batavipusa neerlandica n. gen., n. sp. Koretsky and Peters 2008
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands State/province:Noord-Brabant
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 5.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.7° North, 4.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Diessen
Stratigraphy comments: The sample belongs to the late Tortonian (Late Miocene) SNSM14 Zone defined in the Netherlands (Munsterman & Brinkhuis, 2004), which is equivalent to the Hystrichosphaeropsis obscura biozone of Denmark (Dybkjær & Piasecki, 2010), and the DN9 Zone of the eastern USA and Germany (De Verteuil & Norris, 1996; Köthe, 2012), dated to ca 8.8–7.6 Ma (Dybkjær & Piasecki, 2010).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Liessel
Database number:94930
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-04-01 10:05:59 Last modified:2022-11-10 15:48:05
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-01 10:05:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32359. I. A. Koretsky and A. M. M. Peters. 2008. Batavipusa (Carnivora, Phocidae, Phocinae): a new genus from the eastern shore of the North Atlantic Ocean (Miocene seals of the Netherlands, part II). Deinsea 12:53-62 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

71504 M. Bisconti, D. K. Munsterman, R. H. B. Fraaije, M. E. J. Bosselaers, and K. Post. 2020. A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera. PeerJ 8:e8315 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
82777 M. Bosselaers and D. K. Munsterman. 2022. The discovery of a Balaenomorpha (Persufflatius renefraaijeni n. gen., n. sp.) from the upper Miocene of the Netherlands sheds new light on the cranial anatomy of archaic rorqual relatives. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 44(30):933-973 [M. Uhen/M. Brown/M. Uhen]
57862 F. G. Marx, M. E. J. Bosselaers, and S. Louwye. 2016. A new species of Metopocetus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of the Netherlands. PeerJ 4:e1572 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]