Upper Cretaceous bivalves from the Glauconie de Lonzée near Gembloux (SE Belgium)
The bivalve fauna from the "Glauconie de Lonzee", a highly fossiliferous glauconitic sand of probable Santonian age, is described for the first lime. Twenty-nine species have been recognised: a cucullaeid, a glycymeridid. two limids, three inoceramids, eight ostreoids, four pectinids, a spondylid. a trigoniid and eight heterodonts.Palaeoecologically the major part of this fauna is interpreted as typical for an argillaceous to sandy environment in an open marine shallow subtidal, inner shelf setting.Palaeobiogeographically the assemblage is nearest to the Lower Campanian fauna from Aachen, to T... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1994 |
Schlagwörter: | Cretaceous / Upper / Bivalvia / Mollusca [Molluscs] / Belgium / Gembloux |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27383677 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/253210.pdf |