Where: Belgium (50.9° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 0.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wemmel Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Glibert. 1974. Quelques Turbinoliidae Cenozoiques des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, I: Genre Turbinolia Lamarck, 1816. Bulletin Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 50(1):1-27 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123073: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.01.2012
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Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia nystiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Turbinolia gerardi Vincent 1921 stony coral |