Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 2.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• JA: originally entered as Paleocene
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 3118: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium montense Briart and Cornet 1889 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail | |
Calyptraea montensis slipper shell | |
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis, "Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
"Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail | |
Torquesia coemansi turret shell
Turritella herminae turret shell | |
Euspira briarti moon snail | |
Mitra omalii mitre shell | |
Buccinidae "montensis" n. gen., "Kelletia montis" = Siphonalia (Kelletia)
Buccinidae "montensis" n. gen. Rafinesque 1815 true whelk originally entered as "Buccinidae? n. gen. montensis"
"Kelletia montis" = Siphonalia (Kelletia) true whelk | |
Circulus simplex snail | |
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Architectonica montensis sundial | |
Solariella vinceti snail | |
Collonia crenulata snail | |
Homalopoma montense snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Felaniella ? vincenti" = Diplodonta
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Callista duponti venus clam
Callista montensis Cossmann 1908 venus clam | |
Gari duponti clam | |
Arcopagia montensis tellin clam | |
Loxocardium tenuitesta cockle
Trachycardium heinzelini cockle | |
Monitilora duponti, Fimbria montensis, Parvilucina nannus, Miltha montensis, Miltha solvayi, Here briarti, Callucina corneti, Loripes lemonnieri
Monitilora duponti clam
Fimbria montensis clam
Parvilucina nannus clam
Miltha montensis clam
Miltha solvayi clam
Here briarti clam
Callucina corneti clam
Loripes lemonnieri clam | |
Arcoperna gibbosula mussel | |
Ostrea montensis oyster | |
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Barbatia lamellosa clam | |
Glycymeris corneti clam | |
Limopsis minuscula clam |