Poudingue de Ciply (Paleocene of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (50.4° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 1.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1975. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 3: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda. Geologica et Palaeontologica 9:141-171 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3120: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea montensis slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula aff. ciplyensis nut clam
"n? sp. ex aff. ciplyensis" - originally entered as "Nucula n? sp. ex aff. ciplyensis"
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia duponti clam
Venericardia planicosta duponti
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista duponti venus clam
Callista montensis Cossmann 1908 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae