Where: Limburg, Belgium (50.9° N, 5.6° E: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kleine Spouwen Member (Bilzen Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• From the 'Nucula Klei,' an informal name for the Kleine Spouwen Member of the Bilzen Formation. Unfortunately, the exact provenance level within the Kleine Spouwen Member sequence of the present specimen is unknown, because neither the top nor the base of the unit were visible at the time of collection.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Reyndres

• Repository: Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort, Boxtel

Primary reference: J. M. W. Jagt, B. W. M. van Bakel, and R. H. B. Fraaije. 2010. Coeloma rupeliense (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Bilzen Formation (Rupel Group, Lower Oligocene) in northeast Belgium. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 80:245-252 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 126561: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 07.04.2012

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