Langenboom, Breda Formation, Unit A: Tortonian, Netherlands
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte sp.
Sowerby 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
sp. 1 | ||||||||||
Astarte obliquata
Sowerby 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata | ||||||||||
sensu lato | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rajidae
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Raja sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Pontoporiidae
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Protophocaena minima
Abel 1905
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Ahrens 2005 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Netherlands | State/province: | Noord-Brabant |
Coordinates: | 51.7° North, 5.7° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.9° North, 4.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,glauconitic,brown,green poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: homogenous, compact, dark greenish brown, slightly silty, very fine-grained, well-sorted quartz sand with sommon fine-grained dark green glauconite and some small mica flakes | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 89445 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-05-20 08:13:34 | Last modified: | 2009-05-20 11:13:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-20 08:13:34 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
29366. | E. Wijnker, T. J. Bor, F. P. Wesselingh, D. K. Munsterman, H. Brinkhuis, A. W. Burger, H. B. Vonhof, K. Post, K. Hoedemakers, A. C. Janse, and N. Taverne. 2008. Neogene stratigraphy of the Langenboom locality (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 87(2):165-180 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
16749 | H. Ahrens. 2005. Weer een schedel van Protophocaena minima erbij!. Cranium 22(1):41-44 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |