Kreekraksluizen, borehole 49D.12-15, 47-50 m below surface (Pliocene of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (51.4° N, 4.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Breda Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Breda Formation (Kattendijk Sands equivalent), Petaloconchus Bed

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core

• Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (collected and donated by Rijkswaterstatt. Deltadienst, 1968.

Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2016. Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33:65-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187621: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Macandrevia cranium Muller 1776
 Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Notosaria nysti Davidson 1874