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A brachiopod-dominated sea-floor assemblage from the Late Pliocene of the eastern Netherlands∙

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2014

F.P. Wesselingh ,
W.J.M. Peters  and
D.K. Munsterman
F.P. Wesselingh*
Affiliation:
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
W.J.M. Peters
Affiliation:
Hoeveweg 18, 6613 AE Balgoy, the Netherlands
D.K. Munsterman
Affiliation:
TNO Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (EELS), P.O. Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
*
Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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A sea-floor assemblage from hardened sandstone boulders in which lingulid brachiopods predominate is recorded from the Oosterhout Formation near Balgoy (province of Gelderland, the Netherlands). Dinoflagellate cysts indicate a late Early-Late Pliocene (late Zanclean-Piacenzian) age of these boulders; the entire assemblage is indicative of clear marine waters near storm wave base along the southeastern margin of the North Sea Basin at the time. A possible commensal relationship between the lingulid brachiopods and the gastropod Calyptraea chinensis is implied.

Keywords

CalyptraeaGlottidiadinoflagellate cystsNorth Sea BasinOosterhout Formationpalaeoecology
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 92 , Issue 2-3 , September 2013 , pp. 171 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2013

Footnotes

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In: Mulder, E.W.A., Jagt, J.W.M. & Schulp, A.S. (eds): The Sunday's child of Dutch earth sciences - a tribute to Bert Boekschoten on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

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