Aalter (Eocene of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (51.1° N, 3.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aalter Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• "Paniselian"

• bed-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 123101: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia paniselensis n. sp. Glibert 1974 stony coral