Netekanaal, Emblem yacht harbour (Pliocene of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (51.2° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 4.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, nodular, phosphatic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort, Boxtel

Primary reference: R. H. B. Fraaije, B. W. M. van Bakel, J. W. M. Jagt and F. H. Mollen. 2011. A new axiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the Neogene of Belgium and the Netherlands. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 260(2):157-163 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126155: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 31.03.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Galeodea cf. bicatenata Sowerby 1815 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Scaphella cf. lamberti Sowerby 1823 volute
Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam
 Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis sp. Schumacher 1817 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pygocardia rustica Sowerby 1818 clam
forma tumida
 Cardiida - Glossidae
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula ? arcuata Sowerby 1817 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle
Acanthocardia cf. echinata Linnaeus 1767 cockle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Glycymeris obovata" = Glycymeris (Glycymeris) obovata
"Glycymeris obovata" = Glycymeris (Glycymeris) obovata Lamarck 1819 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Axiidae
"Plioaxius lineadactylus n. sp." = Axius lineadactylus
"Plioaxius lineadactylus n. sp." = Axius lineadactylus Fraaije et al. 2011 decapod