Borehole Gelselaarsbrug B34B0175 (Zenderen Member) (Pliocene of Netherlands)

Where: Netherlands (52.2° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 6.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zenderen Member (Breda Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Spans 49.5 to 68.5 m depth in core. Divided into 1 m or 1.5 m increments, all of which contain Glottidia fragments.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone

• Fine to coarse silty quartz sand, containing glauconite and abundant goethite grains.Commonly phosphorites occur,sometimes forming beds. Largely poorly lithified based on description, but contains some lithified phosphatic concretions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. van den Bosch in 1974

Collection methods: core

• 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 187626: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
? Glottidia sp.
? Glottidia sp. Dall 1870