Where: Belgium (51.0° N, 4.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.3° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Boutersem Sand Member (Borgloon Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Boutersem 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 in the local area.
• 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 111373: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolula pygmaea Philippi 1843 mussel
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Glycymerididae indet. Newton 1922 clam | |
Crassostrea cyathula Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Callucina thierensi Hébert 1849 clam
Pegophysema omaliusi Deshayes 1858 clam | |
Cultellus roemeri clam | |
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"Gobraeus brabantinus" = Gari (Gobraeus)
"Gobraeus brabantinus" = Gari (Gobraeus) clam | |
Parvicardium vincenti Cossmann 1891 cockle | |
Caestocorbula henckeliusiana, "Lentidium nitidum" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum
Caestocorbula henckeliusiana Nyst 1836 clam
"Lentidium nitidum" = Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum Sowerby 1822 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Theodoxus hoeseltensis snail | |
Melanoides fasciatus snail
Tarebia acuta snail | |
Mesohalina margaritaceus, Potamides lamarkii, "Ptychopotamides thenensis" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides)
Potamides lamarkii horn snail
"Ptychopotamides thenensis" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) horn snail | |
Cerithium intradentatum cerith snail | |
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Stenothyroides bidens snail | |
Nystia glibertheinzelini snail
Nystia pseudoplicata snail | |
Ebala bezanconi snail | |
Gyraulus bosqueti snail
Gyraulus schulzianus snail | |
Cylichnina coelata Deshayes 1862 snail |