Where: West Flanders, Belgium (51.0° N, 3.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: NP12 calcareous nannoplankton zone nannofossil zone, Egemkapel Clay Member (Tielt Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• middle Ypresisan (NP12); "Layer IV" of Egemkapel Clay Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lenticular, fine-grained, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: T. Smith and R. Smith. 2003. Terrestrial mammals as biostratigraphic indicators in upper Paleocene-lower Eocene marine deposits of the southern North Sea Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369:513-520 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68430: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.01.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

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