Calcaire de Mons (Paleocene of Belgium)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
 Trochoidea - Colloniidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea montensis slipper shell
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis, "Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis
"Clava urania" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
"Clava dumonti" = Rhinoclavis cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella herminae turret shell
Torquesia coemansi turret shell
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
cf. Thericium koeneni snail
originally entered as "Thericium cf. koeneni"
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra omalii mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
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
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira briarti moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte houzeaui oyster
originally entered as "Pycnodonta houzeaui"
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Varicorbula lefevrei" = Corbula (Varicorbula) clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista duponti venus clam
Callista montensis Cossmann 1908 venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Felaniella ? vincenti" = Diplodonta
"Felaniella ? vincenti" = Diplodonta clam
originally entered as "Felaniella ?vincenti"
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Cardiida - Psammobiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia duponti clam
Venericardia planicosta duponti
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium montense Briart and Cornet 1889 tusk shell