Where: Netherlands (51.5° N, 3.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 3.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• "Pliocene" (which likely then included the Gelasian), but there is a good chance that the unit is the Breda Formation, equivalent to the Kattendijk sands
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2016. Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33:65-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187618: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Pliothyrina cf. sowerbyana Nyst 1843
Pliothyrina sowerbyana Nyst 1843 |