Also known as Mons Basin

Where: Hainaut, Belgium (50.4° N, 3.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hainin Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Reference-level MP1-5 of the mammalian biochronological scale for the European Palaeogene.

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•Although not precisely dated, has been correlated with the earliest Selandian based on stratigraphy (Steurbaut 1998), and more recently to the latest Danian (Steurbaut & Sztr
akos 2008).

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•The borehole that yielded the fossils encountered continental deposits between 8.50 m and 38.52 m in depth. Of the 30 m of continental deposits, only the section between 11 and 25 m yielded vertebrates (De Bast and Smith 2016).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Geological laboratory of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons in the 1970s

Collection methods: core, chemical

• The sediments collected from the Hainin well went through a first step of screen washing. The remaining hard parts were treated with formic acid (5%) with tricalcic phosphate (Ca3(PO4)2) used as a buffer. A second step of screenwashing was then performed.

Primary reference: E. De Bast, B. Sigé, and T. Smith. 2012. Diversity of the adapisoriculid mammals from the early Palaeocene of Hainin, Belgium. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(1):35-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132949: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.08.2012, edited by Terri Cleary and Evangelos Vlachos

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