Where: Belgium (51.1° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tielrode Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Tielrode deposit" [assigned to fm rank by enter], which unconformably overlies Early Oligocene deposits. AGE: Considered to be Pliocene in age based on faunal correlation to Scaldisian assemblages in Belgium. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From fossiliferous basal portion of 3 m thick sand horizon overlying Oligocene strata.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Boekschoten in 1966

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: G. Boekschoten and students. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Geological Institute, State University, Gromingen (Netherlands).

Primary reference: G. J. Boekschoten. 1966. Palaeoecology of some Mollusca from the Tielrode Sands (Pliocene, Belgium). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 3:311-362 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80674: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2008

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