Calcaire de Eisden, Belgium, 231 m (Paleocene of Belgium)

Also known as KT loc 429

Where: Belgium (51.0° N, 5.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: supérieur Member (Calcaire de Eisden Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Montian is now considered middle/late Danian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Revision of the fauna of Vincent (1928)

Primary reference: M. Glibert and L. van de Poel. 1973. Les Bivalvia du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. MĂ©moires / Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 175:1-89 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26891: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 07.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Bivalves only
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenoides pireti file clam
ca. 110 Lima (Ctenoides) pireti
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium bisculptum mud scallop
ca. 15 Propeamussium (Parvamussium) bisculptum
 Arcida - Arcidae
? Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
Arca montensis ark
ca. 10
Acar scaberrima miniature ark
ca. 7
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Miodomeris semen clam
Pteromeris (Miodomeris) semen
"Choniocardia eisdenensis n. sp." = Pleuromeris (Choniocardia) clam
Pleuromeris (Choniocardia) eisdenensis
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha montensis clam
ca. 5
"Recticardo dolloi" = Miltha (Recticardo) clam
Miltha (Recticardo) dolloi
Fimbria transversaria clam
ca. 12
Parvilucina seminulum Deshayes 1857 clam
Lucina (Parvilucina) seminulum
Monitilora cf. duponti clam
Here (Monitilora) duponti
? Prophetilora lamellicardo clam
Here (Prophetilora?) lamellicardo
Barbierella briarti clam
Here (Barbierella) briarti
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula montensis clam
5 valves & 2 bivalves
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle
fragment
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"? Microcallista montensis" = Callista (Microcallista)
"? Microcallista montensis" = Callista (Microcallista) venus clam
Callista (Microcallista?) montensis
 Pandorida - Clavagellidae
? Clavagella sp. Blainville 1817 clam
 Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
? Cuspidaria sp. Dall 1886 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Lamellinucula sinuatella" = Nucula (Lamellinucula)
"Lamellinucula sinuatella" = Nucula (Lamellinucula) nut clam
Nucula (Lamellinucula) sinuatella