PBDB Collection

Sablesmoyens d'Anvers: Tortonian, Belgium

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Pinnipedia

	Pinnipedia indet. Illiger 1811	Ray 1976
Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

	Phocidae indet. (Gray 1821)	Ray 1976
	original and current combination Phocadae

	Monotherium delognii n. gen., n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Van Beneden 1876

	Monotherium aberratum n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Van Beneden 1876
	recombined as Frisiphoca aberratum

	Monotherium affine n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Van Beneden 1876
	recombined as Frisiphoca affine
Mammalia - Cetacea

	Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762	Ray 1976

	Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867	Ray 1976

	Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891	Ray 1976
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

	Megapteropsis robusta Van Beneden 1872
	nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae

	Megaptera affinis n. sp. Van Beneden 1880	Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
	nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

	Heterocetus scriptus n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Vanden Broeck 1874
Mammalia - Cetacea

	Plesiocetus tertius n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Vanden Broeck 1874

	Plesiocetus minor n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Vanden Broeck 1874

	Plesiocetus giganteus n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Vanden Broeck 1874

	Plesiocetus rostratus n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Vanden Broeck 1874

	Plesiocetus intermedius n. sp. Vanden Broeck 1874	Vanden Broeck 1874
see common names

Geography

Country:	Belgium	State/province:	Antwerpen
Coordinates:	51.2° North, 4.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	51.4° North, 3.5° East
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Tortonian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Tortonian
Age range of interval:	11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Diest
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	lagoonal
Geology comments: inner neritic, normal salinity lagoon, low-energy

Taphonomy

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

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:

taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	57733
Authorizer:	M. Uhen	Enterer:	M. Uhen
Modifier:	M. Uhen	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-12-20 07:45:08	Last modified:	2017-04-04 06:40:18
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-12-20 07:45:08
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:

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]
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]
13983		P. J. Van Beneden and P. Gervais. 1880. Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles, comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux; ainsi que des documents relatifs à leur histoire naturelle 1-634 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
19302		E. Vanden Broeck. 1874. Esquisse Geologique & paleontologique des depots Pliocenes des Environs d'Anvers. Memoires de la Societe Malacologiques de Belgique 9:87-374 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]