Where: Belgium (50.8° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Mons-en-Pevele Sands Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Irregular bed of Ditrupa plana, with an accumulation of Ostrea cymbula at several places (2-15 cm thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964-65

• Repository: Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins and R. Smith. 1993. Ypresian (Lower Eocene) crabs (Decapoda, Crustacea) from Belgium. Bulletin De L'Insitut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De Belgique (63)260-271 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174731: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 25.11.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

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