Buurse (Eocene of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (52.2° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: H. D. M. Burck. 1937. Over de fauna van het bartonien in oostelijk Nederland. Proceedings of the Section of Sciences Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 40(2):185-189 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3717: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 09.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia nystiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Platytrochus burcki n. sp. De Gruyter 1944 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella brevis turret shell
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
"Scala spirata" = Epitonium (Scala)
"Scala spirata" = Epitonium (Scala) wentletrap
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Arcida - Limopsidae
"Nuculella nysti" = Nucunella
"Nuculella nysti" = Nucunella clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea gryphina" = Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) gryphina Deshayes 1832 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Amussium cornetus" = Amusium, Chlamys sp.
"Amussium cornetus" = Amusium scallop
originally entered as "Ammusium cornetus"
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell