Orp-le-Grand (Eocene of Belgium)

Where: Brabant, Belgium (50.7° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 2.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144103: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.04.2013, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
"Crocodylus depressifrons" = Asiatosuchus depressifrons2
"Crocodylus depressifrons" = Asiatosuchus depressifrons2 Blainville 1855 crocodilian
IRSNB R252 (IG 9912A; fragmentary skull and lower jaw); IRSNB R253 (IG 9912B; fragmentary skull and lower jaw); IRSNB IG 9875 (21 vertebrae or vertebral fragments, ilium, ischium, pubis, several metapodials, nine ribs, four gastralia, 40 osteoderms or osteoderm fragments)
 Choristodera - Simoedosauridae
Simoedosaurus lemoinei Gervais 1877 choristodere
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1, "Palaeotrionyx aff. vittatus" = Axestemys vittata1
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
small form
"Palaeotrionyx aff. vittatus" = Axestemys vittata1 Pomel 1847 softshell turtle