Also known as ETE Locality 1519, Cran du Midi, Cran du Nord
Where: Sauerland, Belgium (50.5° N, 3.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 13.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation (Wealden Group), Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• 2 layers within mine; age middle Barremian to earliest Aptian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; black claystone and bituminous coal
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: trace, coprolite
Collected by Fagès, Sohier, Sonnet, De Pauw in 1878-1881
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,
• discovered March 1878 by coal miners and engineers, including Mr. Ballez, Mr. Latinis
Primary reference: P.-J. Van Beneden. 1878. Sur la découverte de reptiles fossiles gigantesques dans le charbonnage de Bernissart près de Péruwelz [On the discovery of gigantic fossil reptiles in the Bernissart coal mine near Péruwelz]. Bulletin de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, série 2 45:578-579 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22645: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.03.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson, John Alroy, Jered Karr, Matthew Clapham, Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lycopodiopsida | |
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Pinopsida | |
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Angiospermae | |
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Leckenbya valdensis | |
Leckenbya valdensis13 Seward 1894 | |
Pteropsida | |
Lonchopteris mantelli | |
"Lonchopteris mantelli" = Polypodites mantelli6
"Lonchopteris mantelli" = Polypodites mantelli6 Brongniart 1835 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
"Cladophlebis dunkeri" = Cladophlebis ungeri13
"Cladophlebis dunkeri" = Cladophlebis ungeri13 Dunker 1846 | |
Adiantites sp.13 Goeppert 1836 | |
Gleichenia sp.15 Smith 1793
Gleichenites sp.15 Göppert 1836 | |
Ruffordia goepperti13 Dunker 1844 | |
Weichselia mantelli13, Laccopteris dunkeri13, Matonidium goepperti13, "Protorhipis roemeri" = Hausmannia (Protorhipis)13
Matonidium goepperti13 Ettingshausen 1871
"Protorhipis roemeri" = Hausmannia (Protorhipis)13 | |
Equisetites sp.13 Sternberg 1833 | |
Cycadopsida | |
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Ginkgoopsida | |
Sagenopteris mantelli13 Dunker 1846 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Cycadeoideopsida | |
Protozoa | |
Entamoebites antiquus n. gen. n. sp.12
Entamoebites antiquus n. gen. n. sp.12 Poinar and Boucot 2006 Oregon State University Y2 852 (2), from IRSNB
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Actinopteri | |
Microdon radiatus5 Agassiz 1842
"Mesodon bernissartensis n. sp." = Typodus13 | |
Belonostomus sp.5 Agassiz 1834 | |
Pholidophorus sp.5 Agassiz 1832
Pholidophorus obesus n. sp.13 | |
Pachythrissops vectensis13 Woodward 1890 | |
Anaethalion robustus n. sp.13
Anaethalion robustus n. sp.13 | |
Notagogus parvus n. sp.13
Notagogus parvus n. sp.13 | |
Lepidotes bernissartensis n. sp.13, Lepidotes brevifulcratus n. sp.13, Lepidotes arcuatus n. sp.13, "Lepidotus mantelli" = Scheenstia mantelli5
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Reptilia | |
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"Dollodon bampingi n. gen. n. sp." = Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis11, Iguanodon bernissartensis n. sp.1
"Dollodon bampingi n. gen. n. sp." = Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis11 Hooley 1925 ornithopod IRSNB 1551
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Anteophthalmosuchus hooleyi9 Salisbury and Naish 2011 crocodilian IRSNB R1537 (partial skeleton including skull and mandible) and IRSNB R1539 (postcranial skeleton)
Anteophthalmosuchus epikrator14 Ristevski et al. 2018 crocodilian IRSNB R47 (previously referred to Anteophthalmosuchus hooleyi by Martin et al. 2016)
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"Peltochelys duchastelii n. sp." = Peltochelys duchastelii4, "Peltochelys duchastelli" = Peltochelys duchastelii7
"Peltochelys duchastelii n. sp." = Peltochelys duchastelii4 Dollo 1885 turtle Lectotype shell, IRSNB Ct. R. 16; Dollo (1984) also originally referred two juvenile shells from this locality but they were transferred to Chelonii indet. by Perez-Garcia (2011)
"Peltochelys duchastelli" = Peltochelys duchastelii7 Dollo 1885 turtle IRSNB Ct. R. 17 and IRSNB Ct. R. 18 (juveniles originally referred to Peltochelys duchastelii by Dollo (1884))
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Chitracephalus dumonii n. sp.4
Chitracephalus dumonii n. sp.4 Dollo 1885 turtle IRSNB R11 and IRSNB R12, an almost complete skeleton
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Amphibia | |
Hylaeobatrachus croyii n. gen. n. sp.3
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Osteichthyes | |
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Callopterus insignis n. sp.13
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Coccolepis macropterus n. sp.13
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Trematoda | |
Digenites proterus n. gen. n. sp.12
Digenites proterus n. gen. n. sp.12 Poinar and Boucot 2006 Oregon State University Y2 852 (2), from IRSNB
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Enoplea | |
Ascarites priscus n. gen. n. sp.12 Poinar and Boucot 2006 Oregon State University Y2 852 (2), from IRSNB
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Insecta | |
Hylaeoneura lignei n. gen. n. sp.8
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Algites | |
Algites sp.13 Seward 1894 |