Where: Belgium (50.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.3° N, 2.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Alden Biesen Sand Member (Borgloon Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Alden Biesen Sand Mbr of the Borgloon Fm, which overlies the Zelzate Fm, and is overlain by the Bilzen Fm. AGE: Rupelian; justification not provided. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Composite list for the member at this section.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Marquet et al
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Marquet, Karnekamp, Lenaerts, and Smith, in addition to historic collections: REPOSITORY: Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), and Nationaal Natuurhistorich Murseum Naturalis (NNM).
Primary reference: R. Marquet, J. Lenaerts, C. Karnekamp and R. Smith. 2008. The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Rupelian, Early Oligocene). Palaeontos 12:1-99 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111368: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Sandbergeria cancellata snail | |
Melanoides fasciatus snail | |
Granulolabium plicatum BruguiƩre 1792 snail | |
Turboella turbinata Lamarck 1804 snail | |
Nystia duchasteli snail | |
Stenothyroides pupa snail
Stenothyroides bidens snail | |
Strebloceras cornuoides snail | |
Euspira achatensis moon snail | |
Mnestia turgidula Sandberger 1859 snail | |
"Syrnola laevissima" = Syrnola (Puposyrnola) laevissima, "Syrnola intumescens" = Syrnola (Puposyrnola) intumescens
"Syrnola laevissima" = Syrnola (Puposyrnola) laevissima Bosquet 1859 snail
"Syrnola intumescens" = Syrnola (Puposyrnola) intumescens von Koenen 1891 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lentidium donaciforme" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) donaciforme, "Lentidium nitidum" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum, "Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Lentidium donaciforme" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) donaciforme Nyst 1836 clam
"Lentidium nitidum" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum Sowerby 1822 clam
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
Sphenia angustata Sowerby 1826 softshell clam | |
Cordiopsis incrassata Nyst 1836 venus clam | |
Polymesoda subarata Bronn 1837 clam
Cyrenorita neglecta Nsyt 1836 clam | |
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