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
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica montensis sundial | |
Calyptraea montensis slipper shell | |
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail | |
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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 | |
Turritella herminae, "Torquesia coemansi" = Turritella (Torquesia)
Turritella herminae turret shell
"Torquesia coemansi" = Turritella (Torquesia) turret shell | |
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis, "Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
"Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail | |
Collonia crenulata snail | |
Homalopoma montense snail | |
Solariella vinceti snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium montense Briart and Cornet 1889 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Here briarti, Callucina corneti, Loripes lemonnieri, Fimbria montensis, Parvilucina nannus, Monitilora duponti, Miltha montensis, Miltha solvayi
Here briarti clam
Callucina corneti clam
Loripes lemonnieri clam
Fimbria montensis clam
Parvilucina nannus clam
Monitilora duponti clam
Miltha montensis clam
Miltha solvayi clam | |
Trachycardium heinzelini cockle
Loxocardium tenuitesta cockle | |
Gari duponti clam | |
Arcopagia montensis tellin clam | |
Callista duponti venus clam
Callista montensis Cossmann 1908 venus clam | |
"Felaniella ? vincenti" = Diplodonta
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Limopsis minuscula clam | |
Barbatia lamellosa clam | |
Glycymeris corneti clam | |
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Ostrea montensis oyster | |
Arcoperna gibbosula mussel |