Winterswijk-Miste: Langhian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Heterocetus affinis Van Beneden and Gervais 1868
Van Deinse 1920
recombined as Parietobalaena affinis
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Plesiocetus brevifrons (Van Beneden 1872)
Van Deinse 1931
recombined as Heterocetus brevifrons
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera musculoides n. sp. Van Beneden 1880
Van Beneden 1880
nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon longirostris (Cuvier 1824)
Van Deinse 1931
This specimen is a humerus, which is not known from Mesoplodon longirostris.
Mammalia - Cetacea
Scaldicetus grandis (Du Bus 1872)
Van Deinse 1931
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae
Keasius rhenanus Reinecke and Radwanski 2015
Reinecke and Radwanski 2015
Asteroidea - Paxillosida - Luidiidae
Luidia aff. ciliaris (Philippi 1837)
see common names

Geography
Country:Netherlands State/province:Gelderland County:Winterswijk-Miste
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 6.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.2° North, 5.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary - Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Miocene - Early/Lower Miocene
*International age/stage:Burdigalian - Burdigalian *Local age/stage:Hemmoorian
Key time interval:Langhian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Breda Member:Aalten
Stratigraphy comments: early Langhian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet. Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32040
Authorizer:L. Villier, M. Uhen Enterer:L. Villier, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-02 06:36:49 Last modified:2021-08-20 13:14:19
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-02 06:36:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8606. J. W. M. Jagt. 1991. Early Miocene luidiid asteroids (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) from Winterswijk-Miste (The Netherlands). Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 28(1):35-43 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]

Secondary references:

77572 T. Reinecke and A. Radwanski. 2015. Fossil sharks basking sharks of the genus Keasius (Lamniformes, Cetorhinidae) from the boreal North Sea Basin and Upper Rhine Graben: Evolution of dental characteristics from the Oligocene to Middle Miocene and description of two new species. Palaentos 28(3):39-98 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12641 P. J. Van Beneden. 1880. Les mysticetes a courts fanons des sables des environs d'anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1880:11-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
29779 A. B. Van Deinse. 1920. On fossil Cetacea and Pinnipedia in the Netherlands. Koninkiljke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Netherlands). Afdeeling Natuurkunde 29:1356-1354 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
25229 A. B. Van Deinse. 1931. De fossilele en recente Cetacea van Nederland 1-304 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]