Where: Belgium (50.5° N, 4.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 6.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mortoniceras fallax ammonoid zone, Bracquegnies Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• Collected between 15 and 35 m above the base of the formation. Treated as a single assemblage (limited information about horizon of specimens).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected in 1989-1990
• Repositories: Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht; Lionel Gaudier and Didier Lelubre collections; H. Jan Janssens collection
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, J. W. M. Jagt, F. Amédro and F. Robaszynski. 2008. The late Late Albian (Mortoniceras fallax Zone) cephalopod fauna from the Bracquegnies formation at Strépy-Thieu (Hainaut, southern Belgium). Geologica Belgica 11:35-69 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174924: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hamites subvirgulatus Spath 1941 ammonite | |
Anisoceras armatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite | |
Scaphites (Scaphites) sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite | |
Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Callihoplites tetragonus Seeley 1865 ammonite | |
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha, "Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) blancheti" = Neophlycticeras blancheti
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha Seeley 1865 ammonite
"Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) blancheti" = Neophlycticeras blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1859 ammonite | |
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax Breistroffer 1940 ammonite
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum Spath 1933 ammonite
Cantabrigites cantabrigense Spath 1933 ammonite | |
"Eutrephoceras clementianum" = Eutrephoceras clementinum
"Eutrephoceras clementianum" = Eutrephoceras clementinum d'Orbigny 1840 nautiloid |