PBDB Collection

Kallo, Kattendijk Fm.: Zanclean, Belgium

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Sterocorarius sp.	Dyke and Walker 2005
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

	Herpetocetus scaldiensis Van Beneden 1872	Whitmore and Barnes 2008
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

	Balaenella brachyrhynus n. gen., n. sp. Bisconti 2005		1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

	Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864	Bisconti and Bosselaers 2014	1 specimen
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Alcidae

	Fratercula sp. Brisson 1760	Dyke and Walker 2005

	Alca stewarti n. sp. Martin et al. 2000	Martin et al. 2000	5 specimens

	Alca ausonia (Portis 1887)	Dyke and Walker 2005
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae

	Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825	Martin et al. 2000
Reptilia - Passeriformes

	Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758	Martin et al. 2000
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Motacillidae

	Motacilla sp. Linnaeus 1758	Dyke and Walker 2005
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cetorhinidae

	Cetorhinus sp. de Blainville 1816	Herman 1979
see common names

Geography

Country:	Belgium	State/province:	Beveren
Coordinates:	51.3° North, 4.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	51.4° North, 3.9° 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
Age estimate:	5.0 to 4.4 Ma (other)

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Kattendijk
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation
Stratigraphy comments: 18 m below sea level, BFN 4 (Florilus boueanus-Monspeliensina pseudotepida Assemblage Zone), early Pliocene. The Kattendijk Formation has been dated to 5.0–4.4 Ma based on its dinoflagellate assemblage [57]. (Marx and Fordyce, 2015)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	bioturbation unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: clay, bioturbated at the top, infilled with greyish green sands
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

Collection methods:	salvage,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Eerste Kanaaldok, Beveren-Kallo, Kalloo
Database number:	57912
Authorizer:	M. Uhen	Enterer:	M. Uhen
Modifier:	B. Shipps	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2006-01-06 09:30:14	Last modified:	2017-02-26 15:32:08
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-01-06 09:30:14
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

15568.

M. Bisconti. 2005. Skull morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new diminutive balaenid from the lower Pliocene of Belgium. Palaeontology 48(4):793-816 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

52923		M. Bisconti and M. Bosselaers. 2014. A large balaenopterid skeleton from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea sheds light on the affinities of 'Balaenoptera' sibbaldina (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts 93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
40565		G. J. Dyke and C. A. Walker. 2005. New records of fossil birds from the Pliocene of Kallo, Belgium. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 2005(4):233-247 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
77751		J. Herman. 1979. Reflexions sur la systematique des Galeoidei et sur les affinities du genre Cetorhinus a l'occasion de la decouverte d'elements de la denture d'un exemplaire fossile dans les Sabels du Kattendijk a Kallo (Pliocene Inferieur, Belgique. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 102:357-377 [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]
29776		J. W. R. Martin, C. A. Walker, H. C. Bonser and G. J. Dyke. 2000. A new species of large auk from the Pliocene of Belgium. Oryctos 3:53-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
55050		F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
26217		F. C. Whitmore and L. G. Barnes. 2008. The Herpetocetinae, a new subfamily of extinct baleen whales (Mammalia, Cetacea, Cetotheriidae). Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:141-180 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]