Francart Quarry (Eocene of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.8° N, 5.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Neerrepen Sands Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; burrowed sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Deville. 1996. Palaeontological Study of the Neerrepen Sands in the Francart Quarry (Tongeren, Belgium). Natuurwetenschappelijk Tijdschrift 75(3-4):75-97 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3715: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
? Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
originally entered as "Turritella? sp."
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora subextensum carrier shell
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea simulata Solander 1766 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris lunulata clam
Glycymeris lunulata lunulata
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Palliolum hausmanni scallop
Palliolum hausmanni hausmanni
Hilberia stettinensis scallop
originally entered as "HIberia stettinensis"
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Cardiida - Glossidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae