Peelgebied (Miocene of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (51.4° N, 5.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. G. De Gruyter. 1944. Koralen van het Nederlandsche Tertiair [Corals from the Tertiary of the Netherlands]. Leidsche Geologische Mededeelingen 14(1):10-39 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123948: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia calyculus Wood 1844 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Stephanophyllia nysti Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Stephanophyllia elegans Bronn 1837 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
"Discotrochus duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani Reuss 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum waelii stony coral
subsp. dingdenensis and kautsky
Flabellum cristatum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Flabellum tuberculatum Keferstein 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Caryophyllia granulata" = Ceratocyathus granulatus, Ceratotrochus cf. kefersteini, "Trochocyathus pyramidatus" = Trochocyathus (Aplocyathus) pyramidatus
"Caryophyllia granulata" = Ceratocyathus granulatus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Ceratotrochus cf. kefersteini Krejci 1926 stony coral
"Trochocyathus pyramidatus" = Trochocyathus (Aplocyathus) pyramidatus Michelotti 1838 stony coral
subsp. subperarmata