Kessel: Langhian - Serravallian, Belgium
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Isocetus depauwii
Van Beneden and Gervais 1868
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Van Beneden 1880 | ||||||
corrected as Isocetus depauwi | |||||||
Parietobalaena campiniana n. sp.
Bisconti et al. 2013
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Bisconti et al. 2013 | 1 specimen | |||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Orycterocetus crocodilinus
Cope 1867
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Lambert 2008 | 1 specimen | |||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Archaeoziphius microglenoideus n. gen., n. sp.
Lambert and Louwye 2006
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Lambert and Louwye 2006 | 2 specimens | |||||
Aporotus recurvirostris
Du Bus 1868
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Lambert 2005 | 2 specimens | |||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eurhinodelphinidae
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Xiphiacetus cristatus
(Du Bus 1872)
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2 specimens | ||||||
Priscodelphinus cristatus
Du Bus 1872
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Du Bus 1872 | ||||||
recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Belgium | State/province: | Nijlen |
Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 4.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.4° North, 3.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Langhian - Serravallian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Berchem | Member: | Antwerpen Sands | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Louwye et al. 2000. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Geology comments: neritic, energetic, shallowed upwards |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 53679 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-09-13 13:44:37 | Last modified: | 2023-10-17 12:05:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-13 13:44:37 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14479. | O. Lambert. 2005. Review of the Miocene long-snouted dolphin Priscodelphinus cristatus Du Bus, 1872 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) and phylogeny among eurhinodelphinids. Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre 75:211-235 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
44426 | M. Bisconti, O. Lambert, and M. Bosselaers. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Isocetus depauwi (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic 'cetothere' mysticetes. Palaeontology 56(1):95-127 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12768 | B. Du Bus. 1872. Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Letteres et des Beaux-Arts 34:491-509 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
15538 | O. Lambert. 2005. Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium). Geodiversitas 27(3):443-497 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
30890 | O. Lambert. 2008. Sperm whales from the Miocene of the North Sea: a re-appraisal. Bulletin del'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 78:277-316 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
86117 | O. Lambert, M. Bosselaers, and S. Louwye. 2023. Past beaked whale diversity in the North Sea: reappraisal through a new Miocene record and biostratigraphic analyses. Geologica Belgica 26(3-4):117-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
17221 | O. Lambert and S. Louwye. 2006. Archaeoziphius microglenoideus, a new primitive beaked whale (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the middle Miocene of Belgium. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):182-191 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
29135 | S. Louwye. 2005. The Early and Middle Miocene transgression at the southern border of the North Sea Basin (northern Belgium). Geological Journal 40:441-456 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12641 | P. J. Van Beneden. 1880. Les mysticetes a courts fanons des sables des environs d'anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1880:11-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |