Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• JA: originally entered as Paleocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1975. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 3: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda. Geologica et Palaeontologica 9:141-171 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3118: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Solariella vinceti snail | |
Collonia crenulata snail | |
Homalopoma montense snail | |
Architectonica montensis sundial | |
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Euspira briarti moon snail | |
Circulus simplex snail | |
Mitra omalii mitre shell | |
Buccinidae "montensis" n. gen., "Kelletia montis" = Siphonalia (Kelletia)
Buccinidae "montensis" n. gen. Rafinesque 1815 true whelk originally entered as "Buccinidae? n. gen. montensis"
"Kelletia montis" = Siphonalia (Kelletia) true whelk | |
Calyptraea montensis slipper shell | |
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis, "Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
"Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail | |
Turritella herminae, "Torquesia coemansi" = Turritella (Torquesia)
Turritella herminae turret shell
"Torquesia coemansi" = Turritella (Torquesia) turret shell | |
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris corneti clam | |
Barbatia lamellosa clam | |
Limopsis minuscula clam | |
Ostrea montensis oyster | |
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Arcoperna gibbosula mussel | |
"Felaniella ? vincenti" = Diplodonta
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Callista duponti venus clam
Callista montensis Cossmann 1908 venus clam | |
Arcopagia montensis tellin clam | |
Gari duponti clam | |
Trachycardium heinzelini cockle
Loxocardium tenuitesta cockle | |
Callucina corneti, Here briarti, Loripes lemonnieri, Fimbria montensis, Monitilora duponti, Miltha montensis, Miltha solvayi, Parvilucina nannus
Callucina corneti clam
Here briarti clam
Loripes lemonnieri clam
Fimbria montensis clam
Monitilora duponti clam
Miltha montensis clam
Miltha solvayi clam
Parvilucina nannus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium montense Briart and Cornet 1889 tusk shell |