Middelares Hospital Section: Tortonian, Belgium

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda
Kuiperiana latissima Brady 1878
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheridae
Microcytherura broeckiana
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha sp. Sars 1866
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Brachycytheridae
Pterygocythereis sp. (Blake 1933)
original and current combination Cythereis (Pterygocythereis)
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherettidae
Flexus sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Pontocythere lithodomoides
synonym of Cushmanidea
Cytheridea hoerstgenensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Cletocythereis jonesi
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Hermanites excancellata
Thaerocythere sp. Hazel 1967
Muellerina latimarginata
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Leptocytheridae
Callistocythere sp. Ruggieri 1953
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Sarsicytheridea lienenklausi
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Odostomia cf. conoidea (Brocchi 1814)
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Epitonium frondiculum (Wood 1842)
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Bivonia triqueter
spelled with current rank as Vermetus (Bivonia)
Gastropoda - Tornidae
Tornus belgicus (Glibert 1949)
subspecies belgicus
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula jeffreysi Bellardi 1875
recombined as Nucula (Lamellinucula) jeffreysi
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolula phaseolina (Philippi 1844)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Neopycnodonte navicularis (Brocchi 1814)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limea strigillata (Brocchi 1814)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Pododesmus squamula (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Heteranomia squamula
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Flabellipecten duwelzi (Nyst 1861)
Pseudamussium lilli (Pusch 1837)
Pecten lilli
Pseudamussium inflexum (Poli 1795)
Mimachlamys angelonii (de Stefani and Pantanelli 1880)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris obovata (Lamarck 1819)
recombined as Glycymeris (Glycymeris) obovata
subspecies baldii
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma borealis (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Erycinidae
Semierycina kautskyi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Gouldia minima (Montagu 1803)
recombined as Gouldia (Gouldia) minima
Venus multilamella Lamarck 1818
recombined as Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea angusta
subspecies inflata
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Goodallia waeli (Glibert 1945)
Goodallia angulata (Lehmann 1885)
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata
Petaloconchus glomeratus
Mammalia - Cetacea
Plesiocetus ? dubius (Van Beneden 1872)
nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Ziphiopsis phymatodes Du Bus 1868
Du Bus 1868
nomen dubium belonging to Ziphiidae
Ziphirostrum laevigatum Du Bus 1868
synonym of Ziphirostrum marginatum
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodontidae indet. Slijper 1936
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
? Cheloniidae indet. Bonaparte 1832
see common names

Geography
Country:Belgium State/province:Antwerpen
Coordinates: 51.2° North, 4.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.4° North, 3.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:8 meters
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Diest Member:Deurne Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,glauconitic,gray,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal
Geology comments: inner neritic, normal salinity lagoon, low-energy
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:48092
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-03-13 11:11:33 Last modified:2017-02-26 15:09:53
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-13 11:11:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12873. M. Bosselaers, J. Herman, K. Hoedemakers, O. Lambert, R. Marquet and K. Wouters. 2004. Geology and Palaeontology of a temporary exposure of the Late Miocene Deurne Sand Member in Antwerpen (N. Belgium). Geologica Belgica 7(1-2):27-39 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Foote]

Secondary references:

12767 B. Du Bus. 1868. Sur differents Ziphiides nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 25:621-630 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]