Also known as Saint-Gilles-lez-Bruxelles; Saint Gilles, St. Gilles
Where: Brussels, Belgium (50.8° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 0.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brussels Sand Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• early Lutetian, middle Eocene; Bruxellian regional stage
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by E. Delheid in 1893
Primary reference: L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124461: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.02.2012, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Philip Mannion and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Woutersophis novus2 Rage 1980 snake from the Sables de Bruxelles (=Brussel Fm); no number of specimens given
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Lophiotherium cervulum Gervais 1849 odd-toed ungulate | |
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