Strépy-Thieu boat lift (Cretaceous of Belgium)

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
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Eutrephoceras clementianum" = Eutrephoceras clementinum
"Eutrephoceras clementianum" = Eutrephoceras clementinum d'Orbigny 1840 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax Breistroffer 1940 ammonite
Cantabrigites cantabrigense Spath 1933 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) blancheti" = Neophlycticeras blancheti, Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha
"Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) blancheti" = Neophlycticeras blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1859 ammonite
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha Seeley 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Discohoplites valbonnensis Hébert and Munier-Chalmas 1875 ammonite
ssp. valbonnensis
Callihoplites tetragonus Seeley 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites (Scaphites) sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras armatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites subvirgulatus Spath 1941 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite