Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Étude palynologique (pollen et spores) de l'Eocène de Belgique
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Microfossil assemblages, zonations and planktonic datum levels in the Ieper formation (Ypresian s.s., early Eocene) in Belgium
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The Belgian Quaternary mammals, a bibliography 1819- 1981
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Reconnaissance survey for uranium in the Belgian Paleozoic
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Recherche de métallotectes de nature géochimique pour la prospection des gîtes Pb-Zn belges
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Geologische, mineralogische, chemische en fysische karakterisering der Belgische kleigrondstoffen
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Tarsal diversity in the earliest Eocene mammal fauna of Dormaal, Belgium
- Mammal teeth bring important information regarding phylogeny and diet. However, postcranial elements, although poorly studied for small Paleogene mammals, can provide other significant data. The purpose of this study is to associate tarsal bones with dental specimens for a systematic identification. We thus chose the Belgian locality of Dormaal (Tienen Formation, Belgium) that has yielded the earliest Eocene mammals of Europe. This particularly rich fauna, dated between 55.5 and 55.8 Ma, occurred during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a key period in the mammal evolution. It is composed by archaic mammals (“condylarths”, arctocyonids, plesiadapiforms, “insectivorans”…) and also by earliest modern taxa (primates, rodents, carnivoraforms, artiodactyls …), representing about 14,000 dental specimens. 488 tarsal bones are studied according to three methods: morphology, relative abundance and relative size. 12 morphotypes of astragali and 18 of calcanei are discriminated and most of them are identified at the level of species (e.g. the marsupial Peratherium constans), genus or family (e.g. ischyromyid rodents). New perspectives in phylogeny and paleoecology are proposed for further studies implying tarsal bones.
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Evaluation des réserves en argiles dans la région de Welkenraedt
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New Hypsodont Tillodont (Mammalia, Tillodontia) from the Early Eocene of India
- A new tillodont, Anthraconyx hypsomylus, n. gen. n. sp., is described from the early Eocene Cambay Shale Formation at Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India. Anthraconyx hypsomylus is the smallest Eocene tillodont and is distinguished by having the most buccally hypsodont cheek teeth of any known esthonychine. The closest dental resemblances are to North American Esthonyx and Azygonyx and European Plesiesthonyx, providing further evidence of affinities between the Vastan local fauna and Euroamerican vertebrate faunas.
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Dispersal of continental vertebrates during the Paleogene: Preface
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A land micro-mammal fauna from the Early Eocene marine Egem deposits (NP12, Belgium) and the first occurrence of the peradectid marsupial Armintodelphys outside North America
- Dental remains of land mammals are sometimes discovered in shallow marine Paleogene deposits of the North Sea Basin. Such is the case for eleven specimens we describe here from the Early Eocene Egemkapel Clay Member in the middle part of the Tielt Formation, found in Ampe quarry at Egem in Northwestern Belgium. The small fauna consists of 6 taxa, including the neoplagiaulacid multituberculate Ectypodus, the erinaceomorph insectivore Macrocranion, the nyctitheriid Leptacodon, an eochiropteran bat possibly belonging to a palaeochiropterygid, an unidentified perissodactyl possibly belonging to an equoid, and a new species of the peradectid marsupial Armintodelphys. The latter represents the first European occurrence of the genus, which was previously only known from the North American late Early and early Middle Eocene of the Wind River and Green River basins in Wyoming and the Uinta Basin in Utah. Biogeographic and biostratigraphic analyses of peradectid marsupials suggest that Armintodelphys dispersed between North America and Europe around the time of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. The Egemkapel Clay Member has been dated as middle NP12, early late Ypresian, whereas the Egem mammal fauna can be correlated to the fauna of Avenay from the Paris Basin, which is the international reference-level MP8+9 of the mammalian biochronological scale for the European Paleogene.
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Dispersals of placental carnivorous mammals (Carnivoramorpha, Oxyaenodonta & Hyaenodontida) near the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: a climatic and almost worldwide story
- During the Late Paleocene and around the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, there were important mammalian dispersals in Laurasia involving earliest modern mammals such as rodents, primates, perissodactyls, and artiodactyls. The placental carnivorous mammals (Viverravidae, “Miacidae”, Hyaenodontida, Oxyaenodonta) importantly took part in these dispersals. The present article shows that these latter mammals allow reconstructing faunal dispersal scenarios during the early Paleogene. Indeed, they evidenced several dispersal ways among Laurasia, but also with Africa and possibly India. The dispersal phases discussed in the present paper concern the Early Paleocene, Late Paleocene, latest Paleocene (Clarkforkian NALMA), and Paleocene-Eocene transition.
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Quatre sondages au barrage de Lixhe
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Studie van de lithostratigrafie van het Kwartair en van het Tertiaire substraat te Zeebrugge ondermeer met diepsonderingen
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Kwartairgeologische opnamen in het Bos van A te Zemst
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The Silurian of the Méhaigne area (Brabant Massif, Belgium). Lithostratigraphy and features of the sedimentary basin
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De Holocene sedimenten van de westelijke kustvlakte: een analyse van de Belgische litteratuur
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Hydrogeologische verkenningen in Oost-Vlaanderen (1968-1977)
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Les roches salmiennes à coticule dans la région de Salmchâteau
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Centre for Quaternary Stratigraphy and Paleoclimatology. Contactgroups National Science Foundation (N.F.W.O.-F.N.R.S.). Contributions of the joint-meeting held on 18-19-20 april 1983
