Langenboom, Breda Formation, Unit A: Tortonian, Netherlands

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
1 specimen
sp. 1
Astarte obliquata Sowerby 1817
1 specimen
recombined as Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata
sensu lato
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Protophocaena minima Abel 1905
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
Formation:Breda Member:Unit A
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: early to middle Tortonian
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]