Echinoids, Pliocene, Kallo, Antwerp, Belgium (Pliocene to of Belgium)

Where: Belgium (51.3° N, 4.3° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 3.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Kattendijk, Lillo Formation, Piacenzian to Piacenzian (3.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: J. W. M. Jagt and E. Wille. 2003. Pliocene echinoid faunules from Kallo (Antwerp area, NW Belgium) . In J.P. Feral, B. David (eds.), Echinoderm Research 2001:65-67 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32146: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 07.06.2003, edited by Joseph Villari

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Strongylocentrotidae
Strongylocentrotus sp. Brandt 1835 sea urchin
10 good specimens
 Camarodonta - Echinidae
Echinus lamarcki sea urchin
5 fragments
? Gracilechinus sp. sea urchin
1 fragment
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Spatangus pupureus heart urchin
3 fragments
 Spatangoida - Loveniidae
Echinocardium cordatum Pennant 1777 heart urchin
23 good specimens
 Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Echinocyamus pusillus Müller 1776 sand dollar
6 good specimens
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Megachasmidae
Megachasma sp. Taylor et al. 1983 mackerel shark