PBDB Collection

Sable Superieur d'Anvers: Zanclean, Belgium

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

	Paleophoca nystii Van Beneden 1859	Ray 1976
	nomen dubium belonging to Monachinae

	Callophoca obscura n. gen., n. sp. Van Beneden 1876	Van Beneden 1876
	nomen dubium belonging to Callophoca

	Callophoca ambigua (Van Beneden 1876)	Ray 1976
	nomen dubium belonging to Callophoca

	Phocanella pumila n. gen., n. sp. Van Beneden 1876	Van Beneden 1876

	Phocanella minor n. sp. Van Beneden 1876	Van Beneden 1876
	synonym of Phocanella pumila

	Phoca (Phocanella) straeleni n. sp. Friant 1944	Friant 1944
	nomen dubium belonging to Phocanella

	Gryphoca similis Van Beneden 1876	Ray 1976

	Platyphoca vulgaris n. gen., n. sp. Van Beneden 1876	Van Beneden 1876

	Phoca vitulinoides Van Beneden 1876	Ray 1976
	recombined as Nanophoca vitulinoides
Mammalia - Cetacea

	Burtinopsis similis n. sp. Van Beneden 1872	Van Beneden 1880
	nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti

	Burtinopsis minutus n. sp. Van Beneden 1880	Van Beneden 1880
	nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

	Balaenoptera rostratella n. sp. Van Beneden 1880	Van Beneden 1880
	nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae

	Balaenoptera sibbaldina n. sp. Van Beneden 1880	Van Beneden 1880
	nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae

	Plesiocetus garopii n. gen., n. sp. Van Beneden 1859	Van Beneden 1859
	nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae

	Balaenoptera borealina n. sp. Van Beneden 1880	Van Beneden 1880
	nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

	Mesoplodon posti n. sp. Lambert and Louwye 2016	Lambert and Louwye 2016	1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae

	Monodontidae indet. Gray 1821	Lambert and Gigase 2006
see common names

Geography

Country:	Belgium	State/province:	Antwerpen
Coordinates:	51.2° North, 4.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	51.3° North, 4.0° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Pliocene
Stage:	Zanclean	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Zanclean
Age range of interval:	5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Kattendijk
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation
Stratigraphy comments: Kattendijk and Lillo Formations (Zanclean Stage)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	offshore shelf
Geology comments: warm temperate conditions on shelf influenced by open waters

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	57701
Authorizer:	M. Uhen	Enterer:	M. Uhen
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-12-19 12:02:03	Last modified:	2023-10-17 12:14:52
Access level:	database members	Released:	2006-03-19 12:02:03
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

12761.

B. Du Bus. 1867. Sur quelques mammiferes du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 24:562-577 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

15521		T. A. Deméré, A. Berta, and M. R. McGowen. 2005. The taxonomic and evolutionary history of modern balaenopteroid mysticetes. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12(1/2):99-143 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
25166		M. Friant. 1944. Le femur des phocides scaldisiens; son interpretation morphologique. Musee royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique 20(12):1-4 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
86117		O. Lambert, M. Bosselaers, and S. Louwye. 2023. Past beaked whale diversity in the North Sea: reappraisal through a new Miocene record and biostratigraphic analyses. Geologica Belgica 26(3-4):117-126 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19025		O. Lambert and P. Gigase. 2006. A relative of the beluga and narwhal (Odontoceti, Monodontidae) from the early Pliocene of the North Sea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3):88A-89A [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
58259		O. Lambert and S. Louwye. 2016. A new early Pliocene species of Mesoplodon: a calibration mark for the radiation of this species- rich beaked whale genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1055754 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19087		S. Louwye. 2002. Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the upper Miocene Deurne Sands (Diest Formation) of northern Belgium, southern North Sea Basin. Geological Journal 37:55-67 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19106		X. Misonne. 1958. Faune du Tertiare et du Pleistocene inferieur de Belgique (Oiseaux et mammiferes) Donnees paleontologiques. Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Bulletin 34(5):1-36 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15419		C. E. Ray. 1976. Phoca wymani and other Tertiary seals (Mammalia: Phocidae) described from the eastern seaboard of North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 28:1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
15444		P. J. Van Beneden. 1859. Rapport de M. Van Beneden. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 8:123-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
16855		P. J. Van Beneden. 1876. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 41:783-803 [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]