Also known as Imbrechts sand pit; BGS 74 W 148
Where: Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium (50.9° N, 4.6° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: NP14a3-NP14b foram zone, B Member (Brussles Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Middle Eocene, shell level is the top 2 m of the Brussles Formation at this locality
•Early Lutetian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, brown, yellow sandstone and shelly/skeletal, white sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: sieve,
• 10 tons of sediment
Primary reference: G. Mayr and R. Smith. 2002. A new record of the Prophaethontidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) from the Middle Eocene of Belgium. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 72:135-138 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38719: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 30.04.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Prophaethontidae indet. Harrison and Walker 1976 bird almost complete left coracoid, lacking some processes
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Woutersophis novus2 Rage 1980 snake no number of specimens given; no specific stratigraphic level given, so probably not from layer B
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| Angiospermae | |